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The majority of subsidies go to the large corporate farms who can afford to lobby Congress to get them. It is just another form of corporate welfare. The small family farms get little or no help from the govenment.
The best the small ones can hope for is a partial grant and that's only after mountains of paperwork are filled out.
And this would be for fencing assistance for an individual farmer or for machinery that would be shared in the community among several farmers who pay rental fees for it back to the Extension Agency.
The above are two examples that I personally know of.
The fencing took 18 months and they got 60% help and I think the machinery took more than 1 year.
It's nothing but republican welfare to get the poor/rural vote.
Don't you ever get tired of these silly insults?
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So does that mean you're in favor of cutting subsidies, or just looking to pass the buck here (as usual)?
And BTW, what's the excuse gonna be this time, now that those "Champeens of Thrift" control at least the House and a pretty close margin in the Senate? Especially since they're obviously not working on providing jobs for the middle class, at least with the same "enthusiasm" they pushed thru those generous tax cuts for their wealthy patrons...?!
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I was suprised to see how many people I knew were "Farmers" I wonder whats stopping me from buying cheap tillable land fencing it , and collecting a soybean subsidy on it.
The REAL reason for FARM SUBSIDIES is to support LIBERAL cities...
If you live or have lived in a big city.. you will understand that 99.9% of the people you encounter in the city do NOT produce any food.
Without subsidies to rural farmers (a majority of them which are NOT liberals), the smaller the populations the cities would have. Therefore, the REAL REASON for farm subsidies is to HELP liberal city dwellers and NOT the actual farmers themselves.
I've never understood why the influence which agriculture-based entities have in DC (yeah ADM, that means you) is so abnormally large cconsidering that the US hasn't been a farm-centric nation in decades, as well as the obscene subsidies (ethanol being the latest and the most idiotic one ever) those organizations get from our clueless pols in DC.
Sorry all: I am responding to the OP's first post and first post only. Other posts after post #1 have not been read by me so I apologize if the below has already been stated:
Farms are subsidized to protect the fat bottom lines of the wildly popular fast food industry. Most fast food chains are on the stock market and their investors expect gains, not losses.
Farms are subsidized to protect the fat bottom lines of the wildly popular fast food industry. Most fast food chains are on the stock market and their investors expect gains, not losses.
That is semi-correct and fits in with my conclusion (refer to my post 2 above yours).
That is semi-correct and fits in with my conclusion (refer to my post 2 above yours).
Interesting. Thanks.
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