As applied to agriculture, the special-interest effect suggests that
A) urban legislators support farm legislation in exchange for rural legislators supporting urban-oriented legislation.
B) a relatively small number of farmers receive large benefits at the expense of a much larger group of taxpayers who individually suffer small losses.
C) politicians support farm subsidies because most of the associated costs are hidden rather than explicit.
D) the size of farm subsidies should vary directly with a farmer's earned income.
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