Paul Shapiro on Subsidy-Stuffed Pizza

The debt
ceiling debacle may have come to an end for now, but wasteful
federal spending is still a center-of-the-table issue, perhaps not
unlike an extra-large pizza covered in government pork. Take
pepperoni and cheese, for example. Most businesses operate under
established economic laws. They produce enough to supply what
demand there may be, and if they want to increase demand, they drum
up business through the normal routes like advertising. If they
produce more than what the market demands, they shrink production
to better accommodate the circumstances. Not so, though, if you
happen to be in the business of producing pigs or dairy, writes the
Humane Society’s Paul Shapiro. In that case, the basic principles
of a free economic system don’t apply.

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