Taxpayers Turn U.S. Farmers Into Fat Cats With Subsidies

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Village Negroe said:
Farm subsidies are for proles. When the idea was first debated and passed into law it was by necessity and for the greater good of the health of the country. Unsubsidized and relatively cheap crop, livestock and futures insurance replaced all that decades ago but the farmers aren't going to give up free money from the governmental entities they love to hate.

Other subsidies remain very valuable to the health and future of this country. Energy resource research and development cannot survive without present subsidies. Environmental considerations demand subsidization. New and efficient transportation requirements are also presently dependent on subsidies. In the long run all this and much more will prove to be for the better interests of our society and nation. To think otherwise is simply ignorant or a complete misunderstanding of what national benefits can be realized without the profit motivations of the jerkwad capitalists that think it's all a waste. Maybe it's threatening their bottom lines or causing them to change their business models? I think so.

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The lesson to be learned here is that when you offer subsidies to businesses it's difficult and unpopular to stop giving them subsidies.
 
PostmodernProphet said:
in 2013 the Department of Agriculture reports we are scheduled to spend $30 billion on agricultural subsidies.....the House of Representative voted to cut that by $20 billion.....the Senate has not voted on it.....since 2008.......
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Um, this looks like a pretty pertinent fact.

Why isn't anyone addressing it?
 
Taft2016 said:
Um, this looks like a pretty pertinent fact.

Why isn't anyone addressing it?
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it first came up on another thread about farmers.....they ignored it then too.....seems like all they wanted to talk about was that the House bill cut $20 billion from Food Stamps too......
 
Threedee said:
Wow, too bad Grind is banned from this thread so that he can't respond to being called a "fake libertarian."

String can be quite the coward. As for subsudies - yeah, they are a form of welfare, and real libertarians oppose them. Since Stringy is a poser, who knows where he actually comes in...



#Axe to grind
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Grind gets what he gives and is the one who started that.
 
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pisskop said:
My point is you banned half the board. And I think you just posted the first hipster thing you saw. I don't think you really care about this at all.
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When did you say anything about who I banned??? This is the first. I banned the useless trolls who make up my ignore list.

I have posted on farm subsidies and corporate welfare for years. It's bad policy and the full damage is more than 14 billion dollars.
 
Professor Baxter said:
When did you say anything about who I banned??? This is the first. I banned the useless trolls who make up my ignore list.

I have posted on farm subsidies and corporate welfare for years. It's bad policy and the full damage is more than 14 billion dollars.
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Fair enough. I apologize.
 
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