Subsidizing Coal Mining and Orange Growing Have Both Been Found

question 114

Multiple Choice

Subsidizing coal mining and orange growing have both been found to be economically inefficient in that the costs outweigh the benefits. However, a subsidy on coal mining would help the coal producers in West Virginia and a subsidy on orange growing would help the orange farmers in Florida. So the senator from West Virginia approaches the senator from Florida and says that he will vote for the orange subsidy if the Florida senator votes for the coal-mining subsidy. The Florida senator agrees. Which term best describes what just happened?

• A) the shortsightedness effect
• B) logrolling
• C) the use of user charges
• D) the political voter theory

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