I feel like one of the biggest flaws of modern market liberal democracy is its failure to defend itself. Do we free-ride on the free trade nuts too often? I don't really blame those who find this argument attractive, because where were people like me to argue against it?
We learned at huge cost in lives and misery that giving away food is a well-intentioned but usually awful idea. We used to pay European farmers to grow too much, then we gave it away, or sold it below cost. It put millions of African farmers out of business, and dependent on us.
CATO and the IEA and the ASI will write that piece and make that argument clearly. But are the more sensible, the more transparently funded, the less confrontational,... are we good enough at doing the same?
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