because their lobbys pay lawmakers more!
In capitalism, the people with money make or influence the laws.
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Because people view their products as necessities to everyday life. People want to eat meat and and (real) cheese no matter what.
If without subsidies it becomes cheaper to import these types of foods, it becomes a national security issue.
Plus without subsidies this stuff gets more expensive, so people will start complaining
TIL people also eat (real) fossil fuels
because its tradition!
Ah tradition, the argument that has definitely not been used to justify all kinds of problematic and horrific thing
There are often talks of carbon taxing, but removing subsidies would seen to be the obvious first step. Subdiside greener options instead.
Removing and reducing subsidies also generally has better polling as well from what I've seen
Do you think so? From the people I know I think cutting meat and fossil fuel subsidises would be very unpopular. We have climbing food prices so if meat became more expensive I think there might be uproar - it's needed though!
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