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To: TigerPaw who wrote (10479)	2/1/2006 12:09:42 PM
From: TimF	of 541813

The government subsidises the food supply. Farm payments reduce the retail price of much foodstuff by 50% or more. Is that socialism? The farms are still privately run. Short answer: No. Long answer: Not by the definition of socialism which entails the government owning and/or running the means of production. Sometimes socialism is defined more loosely to include any government activity (or at least any sufficiently extensive government activity, particularly beyond the courts, defense, and police services) but I was not using that definition, and it is not the most commonly accepted definition. Tim

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