Just end the mandate and let the market set the price. Toss in all those goofy subsidies and watch food prices tumble. I mean wouldn’t it do the GOP good to say to the little guy, “we helped reduce your food prices”?
The other dirty secret is that the “family farm” is gone. It’s all big business, even organics. That’s why they need to tie it to food stamps. Without it you can’t get the Dems to vote to give even more subsidies to big business. They need a cover story.
I wasn’t voting for ADM’s tax breaks and special subsidies, I was voting for the urban poor!
No it is not. I know several farmers who own and farm their family farms. Of course they probably will not be able to pass it on to the next generation. The inheritance taxes will force the sale of the farm and equipment.
Somewhere around 90% of American grown food comes from family farms.
Not that you'd recognize then as 'family' anymore, since the IRS has forced them to contort themselves into all sorts of odd corporate looking organizations, but they're still run by farm families.