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Quote of the Day

Jun 3rd, 2012 by

From my colleague Steve Landsburg’s Armchair Economist:

In the United States farmers are routinely paid to leave land uncultivated, whereas nobody would think of paying motel operators to leave rooms vacant.

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  1. Monday Grab Bag of Links … | The Pretense of Knowledge says:
    June 4, 2012 at 5:01 am

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  2. Rod says:
    June 4, 2012 at 4:16 pm

    Ethanol subsidies have caused a lot of those set-aside acres to be cultivated.  Why do we continue to put ethanol into gasoline? 

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