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Subsidies Create Vicious Political Feedback Loop

Subsidies create a vicious political feedback effect: producers (doctors, universities) raise their prices by the amount of the subsidy, then tell their clients to lobby Congress to increase the subsidy because prices are rising, allowing producers to keep driving up their own prices indefinitely.

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Speaker

Michael Lind

Evidence Quote

you get this vicious feedback effect in which the producers can keep driving up their own prices

Source

Michael Lind on LibertarianismEconTalk
Created: 6/13/2026, 12:30:32 AM

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