| DirtyP2002 said: Just to get this straight: You have to pay the right price of the product, because no subsidies artifically influence the price any longer. Now you basically pay what the product is worth. You know that subsidies (no matter if they are American or European) basically kill any chance that 3rd world countries get any sort of export? The irony behind this is that African countries import milk poweder from the EU, because it is cheaper for them. Even though that is the only market they could actually compete with Western countries, because there is not much knowhow and or investments needed to produce milk. Subsidies means that we pay billions (taxes) to artifically reduce a price of a product, which is not a good thing to begin with. Other producers in the world suffer from that, because they sell it for the regular price, which is a bad thing as well. What is wrong with paying the right and fair price? |
Did every single person just ignore my comment?
We ARE paying for milk at what it is worth. Milk is being sold at $19-$20 per hundred pounds because farmers are able to make a profit selling it for that much (and this profit has NOTHING to do with subsidies). If the price does indeed increase to $39.53 per hundred pounds, farmers are going to be ROLLING in the money. Due to the increased price, there will likely be much less milk bought, but farmers will be able to make considerably less milk, but make such an extreme profit on it, that it honestly won't matter.
Money can't buy happiness. Just video games, which make me happy.
