Two categories of people are short-changed by the CAP, of which one is customers. Senator Coonan referred to prices and I will not rise to his bait. Customers comprise the broad mass of almost 500 million people the European Union will soon embrace. They must pay twice for the CAP. The smaller part is the taxes that fund the European Union budget; the larger, paying higher food prices. Every time they buy food, they pay too much, more than they need to and more than they should. The prices they pay are not determined by the market laws of supply and demand. They are artificially determined by the need to use the market to deliver a certain level of support to farmers throughout the European Union, soon to be wider. Instead of supporting farmers directly, which is defensible and with which I would not have a problem, we support them through an inappropriate price support system. It is obvious to independent economists that this benefits no one, neither customers who buy the food nor farmers. Despite what it may have done previously, the CAP fails to provide a proper living for most European farmers.