Just to add to my earlier post: Enough with the circus! A ₱20/kilo rice policy isn’t noble—it’s a reckless political stunt. Farmers are crushed. Tax money vanishes. And for what? A headline? A campaign tagline?
This isn’t governance—it’s theater. Artificially cheap rice won’t end hunger; it’ll bankrupt growers, drown local harvests in imports, and leave the poor with substandard grain while politicians take a bow.
The math is simple: you can’t defy economics with slogans. If leaders actually cared, they’d fix systemic rot—not subsidize collapse while pretending it’s compassion.
Because the only thing truly cheap here is the political rhetoric.