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Food stamps are a type of agricultural price support and the recipients of food stamps have a net gain because the effect on food prices is minimal compared to the income effect of the stamps, since they are purchased at a discount. Our food industry is also an export sector. But one problem. If the food stamp subsidy is funded by taxes, there will be a decline in demand for other goods, including imports. A decline in imports improves our GDP, but makes a smaller amount of dollars available for foreigners who want to buy our food, so the price of the dollar will increase, reducing the demand for our exports (including food). So an increase in domestic food consumption by food stamp recipients is counteracted by a decline in demand for our exports by foreigners.

Other new issues by BO I will take up in the new "trickle-down" thread.

tangent time, because im too lazy to find the appropriate thread:

lol @ donald trump taking credit for the white house releasing obamas long-form birth certificate.

The Donald!

Do you have any evidence or proof of that skrum? I'd take you on face value but it seems you won't meet me half way there.

What's hilarious is that it took Barry 3 years to produce this "public" document. I'm not saying he's Kenyan, but he and his staff fumbled this one to say the least. I mean, I keep a copy of my birth certificate handy for the various times in my life that I need it; however, the POTUS waited three years to get something that should have been sitting in a file cabinet at his house. Just goes to show that the word transparency never really meant much to him, regardless of what he said to get elected.

Long live The Donald!!!

I don't think it was an accident rob. The birthers make the right look silly as fuck. He should've waited longer IMO.

Also rob he released the actual certificate not the one you likely have. The hospital keeps the long form in a vault and I seriously doubt you have yours.

The birth certificate I have is a piece of paper that is 30 years, 6 months and approximately 26 day old. Might not be the long form, but it's an original.

Kenyan President!

"I don't think it was an accident rob. The birthers make the right look silly as fuck. He should've waited longer IMO."

So he purposely did this for political gain? Yeah, that's what I want my president's mind to be on....how to best undermine the other guy.