Submitted by subitulibro on Mon, 2007-09-17 16:47.
Picture a European farmer: he's a bloated subsidies junkie who gets more money from the taxpayer than from the market. Indeed, he owes almost his entire wealth to the European Union's notorious Common Agricultural Policy, which swallows almost half of the Brussels budget. Worse, the lavish payments encourage him to overproduce, creating hefty surpluses to be dumped on the world market at artificially low prices.
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Submited by : Bajar Libros
Picture a European farmer: he's a bloated subsidies junkie who gets more money from the taxpayer than from the market. Indeed, he owes almost his entire wealth to the European Union's notorious Common Agricultural Policy, which swallows almost half of the Brussels budget. Worse, the lavish payments encourage him to overproduce, creating hefty surpluses to be dumped on the world market at artificially low prices.
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Submited by : Bajar Libros