then it seems to me that that market ought to at least be a real market. Despite everything that has been said here today, no one can tell me yet why it is fair, why it is in the tradition of equal treatment under the law, for the law to require farmers in one section of the country, in Florida, for instance, to pay farmers $2 more or $3 more per hundred pounds of milk than they get in our region. That is just not fair.
Addressing fairness in milk pricing for farmers during a debate.
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