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To: tejek who wrote (324148)	2/1/2007 5:17:02 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1574472

In addition, American subsidies to farmers are to get them NOT to grow corn.........that means less corn and higher corn prices which should benefit Mexican farm growners, not hurt them, as you contend. I didn't contend that it hurt any specific group. I said it was harmful. If you raise the price of food you harm its consumers, if you lower the price you harm producers. Either way the interventions are likely to harm the taxpayer, and you distort investment incentives, making investment in the industry less efficient. Mexico's problems are its own......stop trying to blame American farmers. As I said the subsides are a bigger problem for the US than they are for Mexico. To the extent they do cause a problem for Mexicans that's just one more strike against them.