Most Americans couldn’t care less about the harm their subsidies inflicts on the Third World. Respondents were given these alternatives:
A. Rather than giving poor countries foreign aid, it is better to let them export what they can produce. For many poor countries agricultural products are one of the few things they can export. We should not undercut them by flooding the world market with cheap subsidized farm products.
B. Farmers in poor countries work for much lower returns than American farmers. Without government subsidies, American farmers won’t be able to compete and a lot of people working on farms will end up unemployed.
38% preferred A; 53% preferred B.
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