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Quote of the Day

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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  2. Rod says:

    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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