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Document:Libertarian Party Radical Caucus Platform 2016 (view source)
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===7. Agriculture=== | ===7. Agriculture=== | ||
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. | 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. | ||
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. | 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. | ||
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. | 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. | ||
Make private individuals or corporations bear full responsibility for damages they inflict on their neighbors with unwanted externalities including pesticides, herbicides, and genetic modifications. | Make private individuals or corporations bear full responsibility for damages they inflict on their neighbors with unwanted externalities including pesticides, herbicides, and genetic modifications. | ||