Professor Spiegel believes thatifthephysiocrats had been faced with achoicebetweenlaissez-faireandinterventionon behalf offarm-price supports, theywould havechosenintervention.
The House bill would make huge rollbacks in entitlement programs like Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare and farmpricesupports plus scores of other government programs.
The Democrat opposes raising farm income through government pricesupports, which can establish minimum market prices that end up making it harder to sell U.S. food in world markets.
North Dakota's commissioner of agriculture, Roger Johnson, wants the United States to return to the robust system of pricesupports it abandoned with the 1996 Freedom to Farm Act.