Guess you forgot about all that land they own and the fact that they get to charge two to three times more for their sugar to a captive American consumer. The huge farming co-ops receive about 80% of all subsidies. Are you telling me that these co-ops are not well off?
There is no return on spending for price supports. Americans get hosed twice by the govt. when they give the farmers our tax dollars and then again when they force us to pay two to three times more for sugar than the rest of the world. Does increased trade create more wealth, jobs and tax revenue?
You sure are generous with other peoples money. How about you give your money to whomever you choose and let me decide the same. Stop trying to pick my pocket. It compromises my personal sovereignty.
To repeat what I said in rely # 86:
Along the line of our earlier exchange, we hear a constant litany of complaints about lost jobs, outsourcing, trade deficits, increasing national debt, cheap goods from sweat shops and slave labor, jobs being lost to illegal immigrants, and on and on. There seems to be no recognition that the facts bely that. Our economy is booming, unemployment is at a near record low, the national debt is going down, the dollar is climbing, and the "cheap goods" are rapidly out selling and out lasting our own homemade products.
The people who complain the most are the ones, or are effected by the propaganda of the ones, who put us at a competitive disadvantage to start with - the leftists unions and economic policies put in place by the same Congress they now want to save us. Add to that the trial lawyers who are the enforcers for said group.
Without the competition from outside we will drown in the same anti-business and anti-freedom policies that have been growing for seventy years.