“No American industry has been so persistently coddled as agriculture, helping out niche groups and special interests in the short term but making us all worse off in the long term.”
That’s all lies. Farmers did not want the federal government to control their business in the first place. The feds seized control of food prices as the first item in their agenda of total progressive control of the economy.
Any farmer will tell you, they will be happy to give up these federal government subsidies that were forced on them if the government will stop setting the price they can receive for their product.
DITTO’s. Stop the Government price controls and stop the subsidies, but don’t control prices and leave them hanging.
Most farmers didn’t vote for Obama so I expect him to do exactly that.
I don’t know who is setting the prices but I paid $2.50 for a single bell pepper at Publix yesterday.
Oh please, most farmers are some of the biggest welfare queens of the USA. Why do you think we have so many democratic senators and reps in the farm states? They vote for pork and they get it!