Posted on 05/05/2019 6:06:07 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Sunday proposed a sweeping agriculture and rural investment plan to break up big agriculture monopolies and shift farm subsidies toward small family farmers.
“I think a farmer that produces the food we eat may be almost as important as some crook on Wall Street who destroys the economy,” Sanders said during a campaign event in Osage, a town of fewer than 4,000 people. “Those of us who come from rural America have nothing to be ashamed about, and the time is long overdue for us to stand up and fight for our way of life.”
Sanders’ plan expands on themes that have been central to his presidential campaign in Iowa since the start, including his emphasis on rural America and pledge to take on and break up big corporations.
During his Sunday speech, Sanders outlined the dire circumstances confronting rural America — population decline, school and hospital closures and rising addiction and suicide rates in many rural counties nationwide — as the impetus for his policy.
His plan includes a number of antitrust proposals, including breaking up existing agriculture monopolies and placing a moratorium on future mergers by big agriculture companies. He would also ban “vertically integrated” agribusinesses — companies that control multiple levels of production and processing of a product. …
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Comrade Bernie’s 5-Year Plan and Great Leap Forward are next.
“Breadlines for my friends!” exclaims the nutbag Socialist who combs his hair with a balloon.
Bernie still like to have his food.
I live in Iowa and i wish Breadlines Bernie Sanders and his Democrat, Confederate, Progressive, Socialist, and NAZI friends would stay away from here.
I do not have a problem with breaking up monopolies but Sanders is a socialist/communist. How does that work? He wants government to control everything but farming???
Next, the kulaks, eh, Comrade Bernie?
“Sanders calls for breaking up big agriculture monopolies”
Monsanto, ConAgra... good luck you communist prick.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
When the corrupt feds buy votes by giving constitutionally indefensible farm subsidies to agricultural monopolies, the hypocritical feds are helping to foster such monopolies imo.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States."Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited. None to regulate agricultural production is given, and therefore legislation by Congress for that purpose is forbidden [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
In other words, the referenced Democrat targeting the Oval Office wants to rescue small farmers from a “monopoly crisis” (my term) that corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification career lawmakers have helped to create imo.
"The “Holy Grail” of organized crime is to control government power to tax." —me
"The constitutionally undefined political parties are basically competing, corrupt voter unions, union dues paid by means of unconstitutional federal taxes.” —me
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most appropriations laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." —me
Patriots need to elect a new patriot Congress in the 2020 elections that will not only promise to support PDJT’s vision for MAGA, but will also promise to work with PDJT to surrender state powers that the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification feds have stolen from the states back to the states.
Remember in November 2020!
MAGA!
Sure, lets put a rambling clueless old Socialists in charge of our food. What could go wrong?
Sounds like he’s a fan of Zimbabwe now
There are no “monopolies.”
More nonsense.
US Agriculture is one of the things in which the US possess a big trade advantage.
Who then will operate the grain collection and export systems to move all those soybeans and corn out of the country?
I wonder what his 5 year plan is?
I actually agree with him. Follow it by doing the oil refining industry too.
-SB
The current "farm subsidy system" is subsidized crop insurance, but Bernie probably doesn't know that. He seems to want to bring back the AAA and production controls. The man is beyond stupid. He apparently has a collection of agitprop comic books from the 1930's and hasn't learned anything since.
Do you really think he means it?
Notice the whole “shifting subsidies” bit.
Also notice that he fails to name a single monopoly.
Force the kulaks on to collective farms...that worked so well for Stalin
Well. The agriculture subsidies game is a complete racket. It’s made it so only huge farms can really make it. And they get gigantic amounts of subsidies (tax dollars) to boot.
Instead of comrade Bernies plan to “punish the rich” lets just quit the subsidy game altogether.
How many homes does Bernie have? Why does he need more than one? He should let illegal Mexicans use the extra homes since he thinks illegals should come on in!
Bernie, how about breaking up the the GIGANTIC information companies like google, facebook, and twitter?
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