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What your suggesting had been done, and it causes a price floor and the formation of a black market 100% of the time. This is not a solution.
Then perhaps reforming the commons? Agricultural land & surplus are owned in common by the people who live in the area. Government pays for the production of those food stuffs and only gets a nominal % tax on the surplus.
The Soviets tried that and it is the root cause of some of the most serious famines ever seen. Not a good idea. Government, by its nature, is an inefficiency engine. You want the government in the picture as little as possible. This increases that and will cause more inequality not less.
Who said Gov is an inefficiency engine? That sounds more like neo-liberal dogma then actual peer reviewed work.