USA - militarism.
EU - Cut to zero. Abolish the EU.

You'd think.... though not really.

Mostly because of where the subsidies go to...

they tend to go to crops when not used for food.  Like Corn subsisdies for ethanol fuels.

Additionally other subsidies are supported by tariffs... no subsidies, they'd reduce tariffs too i'd think.

I'd actually be better for ethanol in this way too, as we could import cheaper, cleaner sugar cane ethanol.   Currently the subsidies and high tarriffs on sugar cane are used to hold down sugarcane ethanol.

As for food stamp abuse... it wasn't a food stamps card right?  Can't imagine a McDonalds being able to get a food stamps machine in any state.

Unemployment or other welfare though I can see.

Either way, you'll never stop welfare abuse unless you end up hurting a lot of innocent people along with it.

EDIT: guess i was wrong about fast food and food stamps.  Damnit.

My bad.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2011/09/fast-food-chains-getting-into-the-food-stamp-act/

And then welcome back trade barriers all over the continent

Good idea. No sense in having cheap-o Slovakian labor taking the jobs of right upstanding Englishmen. Go Labour!

Oil Subsides! Screw Oil companies.

1 child per family. in a few generations youll have far less people to manage.

Given the current path of the EU, that may well be a better option. I'm sure many of the countries in the EU would be happy to sign free trade agreements with eachother, UK, Germany, Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland, Eastern Europe, etc. Plus, we'd now be free to negotiate free trade deals with other countries around the world without the French fucking everything up.

The EU is not the same as the European Free Trade Agreement, which could likely stay intact.

But yes, it would probably curb immigration between European countries, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

I was under the impression that the EFTA was between the EU and external states (Norway, Switzerland, etc), which would mean that with the elimination of the EU, the EFTA would also need to be renegotiated. Given the current political climate, I'm sure there will be some countries that refuse... but, hopefully, most of the countries with /some/ savvy (which I listed in my previous post) would quickly re-negotiate.

EDIT: Just like to point out that I'd still like to see "people" included in these agreements, but that seems even less likely. Even the more free-trade nations have a hard time accepting freedom of movement. This is perhaps the one good thing that would die with the EU.

Right, and I'd like to see the agreement between the EU and Norway and Switzerland turned into a continent-wide treaty. Certainly, all of the Western European countries would agree to it.

EDIT: And as for people, I fully support the free movement of labour as long as the immigrants don't turn to crime and/or use up government resources without contributing.

"Green Energy" subsidies ... They are (really) just slush funds designed to pay political supporters of the parties that are in charge.