[Texas Fossil]

The intent of Farm Subsidies is to stabilize prices at an artificially low level.

This is a tool to prevent people throwing the POLS out of office. Hungry people do that type of thing. Cheap food is soothing to the masses.

Farming is a high risk business. And the current subsidized insurance program has lots of flaws. And you must sign up for the insurance program, or you get no subsidy.

My family have always been farmers. Going back to well before the Civil War. In this county in TX since 1889. The subsidy programs began in the 1930’s. Many farmers refused the subsidy for several years after they began. That was a long long ago.

[PeterPrinciple]

And the current subsidized insurance program has lots of flaws

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It sounded good at the time but taking the risk out of anything is a bad idea, like taking the risk out of home mortgages.....................