Two categories of people are short-changed by the Common Agricultural Policy. The first category is the ordinary customers, the broad mass of the nearly half a billion people the European Union will soon embrace through enlargement. They must pay twice for the Common Agricultural Policy and the smallest part of what they pay is through the taxes that fund the European budget but the most important burden on them is the higher prices they pay every day when they go out to buy their food. Every time they buy food, week in and week out, they pay more than they should have to pay. The prices they pay are determined by the market laws of supply and demand. These prices are totally artificial and are determined by the need to use the market to deliver a certain level of support to farmers throughout the Union.