Have students answer the following questions for each Mystery. . Identify all the parties affected, both seen and unseen. How are they affected? What policy is in the general interest, in the long term? What policy benefits the special interest in the short term? Mystery 2 Trade barriers are being discussed in congress. There is a cane sugar tariff, corn growers argue to keep the tariff, stating that removing it will hurt the farmers and farm equipment providers. Mystery 3 Startup restaurants are known to be very uncertain enterprises, and consequently many people who want to start restaurants are unable to get loans to do so. The government mandates that banks must give a certain percentage of their loans to people starting restaurants. Mystery 4 A union wants to restrict immigration of low skilled workers into the US. They argue that it will reduce the wages of their workers. Mystery 5 The government decided to bring home and demobilize all troops from the various conflict zones and bases and reduce taxes by a commensurate amount. Many people argue that there will be mess unemployment as a result.