This is a bit of a confusing take if you're using ag subsidies as evidence to keep the govt out of chip manufacturing but now denying that the subsidies aren't bad.
>The nightmarish results of agricultural subsidies in the US is an excellent reason to not involve the government
This sure sounds like you think it's a claim of subsidies being bad policy.
>The made claim was that the ineptitude and mishandling of agricultural subsidies is reason to reconsider
How do you combine the view that "ag subsidies aren't bad" with "the government shouldn't be in the business of managing subsidies" when the definition of subsidy involves the government? At first take, this comes across as back-peddling to avoid dogmatic cognitive dissonance.
But I'll be generous and assume you did not mean that ag subsidies are bad in and of themselves, but the way they are handled is poor. So what do think is a more proper way to handle them? Should the focus be on different products? If so, which ones?
The point has already been made that ag subsidies are operating as intended and the downsides you refer to are downsides of abundance. I have a feeling that most people who have actually lived with food scarcity would find them preferable to the actual "nightmarish results" of too little food.