Trent McBride points out a common fallacy about free trade and developing countries, one to which I admit I have occasionally succumbed:
Commonly, in an exercise in overstating the case, free traders may argue that we should eliminate our farm subsidies to help poor farmers in developing nations. This would certainly help the poor farmers. But it ignores the fact that most inhabitants of the poorest nations are poor non-farmers who could use some cheap food. As it stands, our taxes that go to farm subsidies are very much simply redistributions to the world's poorest. The charge that "dumping" cheap food into the nations is harmful is just as fallacious as when those certain parties state that "dumping" of cheap imports is not harmful to us (and free-traders rightly call this one out)
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