The market, not agriculture bureaucrats, should decide winners and losers

Taxpayers should be concerned about this loan by the Kentucky Agriculture Finance Corp. not because, as the Lexington Herald-Leader states, "tobacco is subsidizing coal," but because state government should not be in the business of picking winners and losers in any industry.

Let the market determine -- without government loans (especially those to the politically influential) -- which ag-related businesses survive, which ones thrive and which ones don't make it at all.