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Pros:

- Subsidies would allow for farmers to compete with low-priced foreign imports

- Subsidies would keep the cost of goods down

- Subsidies would help farmers maintain a steady income, helping to protect them from variations in year-to-year income. (Such as a bad growing year. Some years, there are fewer crops that are produced, be it due to poor weather or other factors, and these loss of crops would dramatically harm a farmer's income. Subsidies would help make up this difference.

Cons:

-It costs a fortune (remember, we are in $14 trillion in debt)

-Subsidies tend to go to larger farmers, who would not be threatened as much by a bad growing year.

-subsidies would go against the free market

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