$600,000 Oysters

According to the laws of supply and demand, oysters should get a lot cheaper in North Carolina very soon. The North Carolina government, apparently because it has nothing better to do with $600,000 of taxpayer money, is going to start raising oysters -- up to 10 million of them.

So, if the supply of such an item increases so drastically, the price should drop (assuming demand stays the same), right?

Well, basic economics only works when not interfered with by government. You can be sure this will be another government program that will need $800,000 next year, and another $1,000,000 by 2007. And you can bet if they only get $790,000 next year, the Democrats will call that a "cut."

All I can say to this is WHY, WHY, WHY?

What is this desperate need for oysters? Would there be no oysters if the North Carolina government doesn't use hundreds of thousands of dollars to raise them? I absolutely do not understand how ANYONE can defend such an incredible waste of money.

If YOU want to raise damn oysters, YOU raise them -- and stop FORCING me, at gunpoint, to pay for someone else raising them with ZERO benefit to me!

Posted by: Ogre at 10:10 AM

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