One of the passages has a title that says death through thousand subsidies. In this passage Wheelan argues that each subsidy and trade protection and tax break and price support taken on its own is insignificant, so small when shared by the whole population of the U.S. that no one notices the parts of cents per dollar they spend on unnecessary support each time they pay their taxes. No one notices and that is why they are so successful. And every year tax money is spend on upholding economies that, after the laws of the capitalist market would be gone or at least shrunken down by now.
This does affect everyone. Maybe not because the few cents spend every year for nothing would have been the ones who saved the concerning person from the hunger death (hopefully), but more because there are so many areas in today's society that could need this money. By supporting the people that really do need support (which are not sugar or corn farmers). And that could improve everyone's life. Taxes are meant to provide a population with things that are needed and can't be gotten by individuals. Not to fill allready full pockets of other individuals.
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