Yes, I understand that completely. It is why I object to subsidies for any person or company. It also has the effect of screwing up the investments in the rest of the economy that wants different goods than the subsidized ones. But, of course, the state and its operators know better than us, don’t they?

We know that beforehand subsidies were given. That's the analogy.

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The Strange Moral Relativism of "Free Trade"

Yes, something else, criminal, is going on. Do you know, beforehand, that the goods are stolen, if so, **you** are part of the crime and therefore a criminal. I won’t even go into a pawn shop because I do not know the providence of the goods in the shop.

And, yes, it is something else than free trade, it is fencing of stolen goods. If you get caught, you get treated much the same as the thief. I guess you are saying that anything subsidized is the product of theft, then, right? Wow, that would make any agricultural product from here a product of theft, too.