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What are the typical policies for getting more stuff produced?


Whatever we do with corn is a good example. We have way more of it than anyone wants, but it continues to be produced because the producers are subsidized. (We have found alternate uses for the corn glut; high fructose corn syrup, ethanol in your gasoline, etc. Neither of these things exist in countries that don't subsidize corn production.)

In theory, you could do this with toilet paper or loaves of bread too.




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