Saturday, June 25, 2011
Cheating Cheaters of Cheatery: The Amazing Story of Brazil's Cotton War with the US
Pizza Shirt: dftba.com Planet Money: dft.ba In which John Green discusses the insane story of how the United States of America ended up subsidizing the cotton industry in Brazil so that America could continue its own illegal subsidies of its cotton farmers. This year and every year until we end our illegal cotton subsidies, the US federal government will pay $147 million of American tax dollars to Brazilian cotton farmers to make up for our illegal subsidies,
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