Great question about what other businesses, or even just other agricultural sectors, thought about the dairy industry bailout. Perhaps we could have had government wine and government crackers to go with our government cheese! This article from 1980 doesn’t mention such a possibility, but it suggests that “milk” was as much a dirty word at the time as “Nixon” or “Korea.” Shocking! (Also, the moral of the story is, once again, never trust a lobbyist.) https://reason.com/archives/1981/07/01/the-fortunes-of-the-dairy-lobb
Great question about what other businesses, or even just other agricultural sectors, thought about the dairy industry bailout. Perhaps we could have had government wine and government crackers to go with our government cheese! This article from 1980 doesn’t mention such a possibility, but it suggests that “milk” was as much a dirty word at the time as “Nixon” or “Korea.” Shocking! (Also, the moral of the story is, once again, never trust a lobbyist.) https://reason.com/archives/1981/07/01/the-fortunes-of-the-dairy-lobb