You mean He didn't? Rodney Weiher
Alex Tabarrok wrote: > Yes, I believe that the majority of the American public supports > farm subsidies. The rational ignorance assumption fails to explain this > - it's not like the information that governments spends billions on the > farmers is hard to find. > > Some combination of Bryan's rational irrationality and just plain > irrationality explains the results much better. > > Forty four percent of the American public thinks that �God created > human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the > last 10,000 years or so.� (November 1997, Gallup Poll) so why should we > be surprised that many Americans also support farm subsidies? > > Alex > -- > Dr. Alexander Tabarrok > Vice President and Director of Research > The Independent Institute > 100 Swan Way > Oakland, CA, 94621-1428 > Tel. 510-632-1366, FAX: 510-568-6040 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
