Barbour and Farm Subsidies
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The Daily Caller has an interview with the Mississippi governor, Haley Barbour, a possible Republican presidential candidate. The Web site asked him about federal farm subsidies and reports he gave the following answer:

"Some of them are very important," Barbour told TheDC when asked if he supported taxpayer subsidies for farmers. "What we want to have in the United States is abundant food at a responsibly low price. To do that, we have to have an appropriately large supply of agricultural products. When sales volumes are good, prices are reasonable, there shouldn't be any farm subsidies. But for natural reasons, nature, or what other countries are doing in terms of how they're handling their markets, sometimes it is appropriate to have farm subsidies."

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Barbour and Farm Subsidies
futureofcapitalism.com

The Daily Caller has an interview with the Mississippi governor, Haley Barbour, a possible Republican presidential candidate. The Web site asked him about federal farm subsidies and reports he gave the following answer:

"Some of them are very important," Barbour told TheDC when asked if he supported taxpayer subsidies for farmers. "What we want to have in the United States is abundant food at a responsibly low price. To do that, we have to have an appropriately large supply of agricultural products. When sales volumes are good, prices are reasonable, there shouldn't be any farm subsidies. But for natural reasons, nature, or what other countries are doing in terms of how they're handling their markets, sometimes it is appropriate to have farm subsidies."

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