“But it ain’t right and it doesn’t make economic sense to subsidize small, inefficient operations with the hard-earned dollars of American workers. “
Ah so you’d prefer to use the govt to hand the market to big business.
Yeah thats American.
Actually, farm subsidies are used by the BTO’s (as small farmers call the Big Time Operators) to out-bid the smaller farmers on land, equipment, rents, you name it.
The common myth is that small farms are pulling down the subsidies. Wrong. The majority of farm subsidies are received by the biggest farming operations - and then, the bulk of the farm subsidies are taken down by big farms in something like only six states.
The vast majority of people filing Schedule F’s on their tax returns don’t get subsidies - at all. Not even CRP payments.
If we ended farm subsidies tomorrow, it would be one of the most beneficial things to happen to smaller farmers since Herbert Hoover started subsidizing farmers in 1928/29.
Yes, that’s right. The farm subsidy system started not under FDR, but under Hoover. The crash in ag commodity prices started two years before the 1929 crash of Wall Street.
Yeah thats American.
How "American" is it to use tax dollars to support the market for anyone? Come on, man. Think about what you're writing. Crony capitalism exists in agriculture, too.