Why would farming fail without subsidies? Something is wrong with that statement. Farming didn’t require subsidy prior to its being industrialized (or communized) and taken out of the hands of family farms. The volume of farm output is due to the nature of the USA’s farmland rather than embracing the communistic methods of industrialization (take note that I’m not going against mechanization here). The USA’s wealth has been built on agricultural exports going back to its beginnings (including mechanization rather than factory-farm collectivization), and that’s going way back before the Communist Manifesto was even written.
The statement “Subsidies keep businesses going that would fail otherwise” is a sweeping generalization. It cannot be accepted in US capitalism, and to continue down the socialist-influenced path we are treading is what is the danger.
“The statement “Subsidies keep businesses going that would fail otherwise” is a sweeping generalization.”
But it also is a correct one that has specific examples one can point to. I did not say farming would fail but rather businesses. One is general, the other individual.
“The volume of farm output is due to the nature of the USA’s farmland rather than embracing the communistic methods of industrialization (take note that I’m not going against mechanization here).”
OK, point to one farm in the U.S. and how it has “embraced the communistic methods of industrialization”.