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[Bofferbrauer2]

xboxgreen said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Now explain to me how things that have zero effect on food prices like welfare and housing would have any effect on food prices. As for the food for food stamps, less than point one percent of all the food in the US are used in this program, so removing those would have no real measurable effect on the prices.

If you remove social programs the government provides you won't see the price of products go up artificially.

For example, if you give me welfare I will have more money to spend on products like food. Therefore driving up the demand artificially and causing inflation.

Again, like I said, less than 0.1% of the food produced in the US goes towards food stamps. Removing this would have absolutely zero effect on food prices as the demand is near zero compared to the entire market and would just result in people literally dying of hunger in the richest country in the world.

And like @zorg1000 explained, farmers themselves are heavily subsidized, which is also a kind of social program btw. And since you suggest cutting social programs, you can be damn sure that would increase the prices due to removing the heavy subsidizing of the entire agrarian sector.