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Just slap extra taxes on California's biggest businesses and an extra 10% income tax on its wealthiest residents. No reason the rest of the country should pay for it.
There is certainly issues but the general goal of the farming subsidies is to insure an adequate food supply and keep food prices stable during a lean growing season. Without them farmers would plant far less, when a lean growing season occurs food is scarce and prices go through the roof.
This^ It is a policy built on lessons learned from historical crisis when there was a lack of food. Farmers being incentivized to overproduce is good when weighed against how bad the other scenario can get.
Harriss plan is basically poorer states subsidizing wealthy states. A recipe for disaster.
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