Someone might argue that favors to a particular company are more personal and privileged because the company is in competition with other companies in its industry, whereas favors to groups are industry-wide and therefore uniformly fair. It is somehow all right if consumers suffer uniformly. We hail equality even when it is equality of abuse. But there is no fair way to be unfair or harmless way to be harmful. And there is no equality in circumstances.
Industries receiving favors are only segments of other industries.
Price supports for cotton growers are naturally felt throughout many industries, affecting each differently in relation to its particular competition and the importance of cotton to its production. Where one laborer's employment is unaffected, another is left unemployed. Our whole political system has disintegrated into one of economic tampering through favors-a cheating system. The only way to remove the risk of government cheating is to remove the possibility for favors and stay within the Constitutional bounds of preserving peace. Instead, we have devised a way to justify all this waste, cheating and inconsistency.