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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Sorry, but I gotta tell you, federally subsidized crop insurance is not a program I would ever contemplate getting rid of.

There are a lot of things I would be willing to change with respect to agricultural policy, but that one ain’t one of them. The fact that a Farmer can safely invest in his crops for the following year with some insurance that if they fail due to weather that he isn’t bankrupted by it, is fine with me.

We went through the dust bowl to learn that lesson, no need to do it again.


93 posted on 09/30/2016 6:20:32 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: HamiltonJay

I do not have a problem with crop insurance, nor do I have a problem with flood insurance. The question, as always, is do non-farmers need to subsidize it, just like do people who don’t live in flood plains have to subsidize flood insurance?


94 posted on 09/30/2016 11:27:14 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Just one of a basket of deplorables)
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To: HamiltonJay

Sorry, but I gotta tell you, federally subsidized crop insurance is not a program I would ever contemplate getting rid of.


When you take the risk out of farming, what happens?


96 posted on 09/30/2016 11:44:58 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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