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To: Neocon who wrote (24367)7/13/2000 12:03:48 PM
From: nihil  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
Most farm subsidies began prior to the First World
War

Would you like to produce a citation that supports this erroneous assertion? Economic history suggests that the first farm subsidies started in 1933. Here is a citation:http://aghistory.ucdavis.edu/sumnerabstract.html



To: Neocon who wrote (24367)7/13/2000 12:25:02 PM
From: Father Terrence  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
Another government agency that never should have existed. The propagandist book Octopus about he "evil" railroad barons helped the federal power play on that one.

... like the Interstate Commerce Commission, date from the 19th century...


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