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Does Local-First seek to subsidize inefficient local business?

Submitted by admin on Thu, 03/09/2009 - 11:13pm

No. Free-market economists forget that the United States is a crazy-quilt of thousands of market imperfections - subsidies, regulations, insurance liability limits, tax wrinkles - nearly all of which favor non-local business. Buy local campaigns are very modest efforts to adjust this tilt in the playing field.

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