The subsidies to agriculture were meant to keep prices low for consumers. Don’t believe it? Then you probably don’t know that food prices in the USA are the lowest in the world.
The amount of your food bill that goes to the actual product is less than 20%.. The rest is transportation trucking, warehousing, grocers etc,
The subsidies were approved because farmers had such narrow margins that food production was going down.
I don’t care why they were instituted. They were wrong then and they’re wrong now. Regulating the price of foodstuffs is NOT an enumerated power of the Federal government.
That practice needs to end and it needs to end now.