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===10. Agriculture===
===10. Agriculture===


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America's free market in agriculture, the system that feeds much of the world, has been plowed under by government intervention. Government subsidies, regulation, and taxes have encouraged the centralization of agricultural business. Government export policies hold American farmers hostage to the political whims of both Republican and Democratic administrations. Government embargoes on grain sales and other obstacles to free trade have frustrated the development of free and stable trade relationships between peoples of the world.  
America's once-free market in agriculture has been largely plowed under by a century of government-facilitated manipulation. Subsidies, price controls, price supports, quotas, farm-confiscating inheritance taxes, misleading yet mandated labels, approved pollution and contamination levels, suppression of politically undesired products, and more have stifled free market choices and innovations.


The agricultural problems facing America today are not insoluble, however. Government policies can be reversed. Farmers and consumers alike should be free from the meddling and counterproductive measures of the federal government -- free to grow, sell, and buy what they want, in the quantity they want, when they want. Five steps can be taken immediately:
We seek a return to a free, dynamic market with every possible and desirable crop being produced and sold by as many market participants as possible, using any method that meets with the approval of the buying public that does not spread external harm.


a. abolition of the Department of Agriculture
Private sector labeling must be allowed to replace government-mandated labeling -- consumers will be better served with competitive certification and labels and the ability to reject products whose labeling fails to meet their personal standards.
 
b. elimination of all government farm programs, including price supports, direct subsidies, and all regulation on agricultural production;
 
c. deregulation of the transportation industry and abolition of the Interstate Commerce Commission;
 
d. repeal of federal inheritance taxes; and
 
e. ending government involvement in agricultural pest control. A policy of pest control whereby private individuals or corporations bear full responsibility for damages they inflict on their neighbors should be implemented.


Make private individuals or corporations bear full responsibility for damages they inflict on their neighbors with unwanted externalities including pesticides, herbicides, and genetic modifications.


===11. Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)===
===11. Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)===
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