Re: People In Glass Houses.....
It's not at all new, in fact it's SOP. We periodically have US governments whine about Canada limiting imports of US dairy. We don't subsidize our farmers, we have a managed supply system so that the prices are maintained at a level that farmers can stay in business. How could they compete with US farmers and their billions in direct subsidies?
There's joke that goes something like this
Two farmers are talking about next years crops, the first farmer asks the other if they are growing corn again next year, The second farmer replies that he's switching to alfalfa as the government pays him more to not grow alfalfa than to not grow corn.
There is a similar paragraph in Catch 22, though I don't know which came first