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> Lets talk about the smallest tax (subsidy!) we pay one of the 6 listed about, ethanol subsidies. 40 million acres are used to grow corn for ethanol subsidies (out of 93m total).

Isn't that for food security in case of war?




You can’t feed an entire nation nothing but corn.


The practicality is besides the point, I just thought it a bit disingenuous to not mention why the US subsidizes corn so much.

To your point it's not the only thing like that. There's huge national reserves of lots of stuff, the amount of cheese for example is huge.


Government cheese is a real thing and it is not very good.




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