The One-Handed Economist

Would the elimination of agriculture subsidies reduce the number of illegal immigrants?
I’m guessing that it might: Ag prices in the US are largely propped up by government subsidy and import restriction, this means that more food is grown every year than we’re going to use…a lot of it gets left around to rot, a […]

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Now that I know the NSA has a huge fucking database of phone calls anyway, and that my cell carrier has been complicit in such, I’m just going to come out and say what I’ve been thinking because I’m sure I’m already on watch-list anyway.
Basically, the headline is all I wanted to say. There […]

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