The Downside to Helping Farmers Through Price Supports and Output

question 16

Multiple Choice

The downside to helping farmers through price supports and output restrictions has been that:

• A) consumers pay higher prices for food.
• B) citizens pay higher taxes to support the costs of the program.
• C) most federal subsidies have historically helped the rich farmers, not the poor.
• D) all of the above.

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Macromolecules essential for all known forms of life, which store and transfer genetic information in cells (e.g., DNA and RNA).

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Nucleic Acid

A biopolymer essential for all known forms of life, which carries genetic information. It includes DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) and RNA (ribonucleic acid).