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To: Poohbah
"it's a bunch of farmers saying they have a right to public subsidy."

You've peddled that lie here before, but Jeff and AuntB presented credible evidence that the participants paid off every penny and more. - There is no subsidy, the operations turn a profit.

15 posted on 06/10/2002 4:56:05 PM PDT by editor-surveyor
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To: editor-surveyor
You've peddled that lie here before, but Jeff and AuntB presented credible evidence that the participants paid off every penny and more. - There is no subsidy, the operations turn a profit.

Well, yeah. Once you delete the initial subsidy (I sure as hell can't swing an interest-free loan, nor can I force land sales at gunpoint, nor can I just make a sweetheart deal with the statehouse for their lands, nor can I simply rewrite a treaty with the local Indian tribe at the drop of a hat), it makes a profit.

If they had to pay market prices for the land AND the loans, this thing would have gone broke in a few years.

Like I said, the plaintiffs' case reduces down to "it may be unconstitutional as hell, but it's OUR pet unconstitutionality, so we ought to continue deriving the benefits thereupon."

16 posted on 06/10/2002 5:01:19 PM PDT by Poohbah
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