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originally posted by: neo96
Are Farm Subsidies socialism?
At best its cronyism.
Paying people to not farm and price fixing.
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
a reply to: neo96
Perhaps....but that is irrelevant to keeping farmers on their farms during droughts.
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
a reply to: olaru12
That is an example.
Another would be all farmers growing the high revenue crops, even if those are not edible foods.
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
originally posted by: JAGStorm
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
No.
Farm subsidies, at least in theory (if not in practice) are meant to provide stability in the food supply. Thats survival, not socialism.
Is survival not possible without subsidies? What happened to less government??
If no one wants to farm because of the nature of farming, then how will we eat?
How many years of drought should a farmer starve through before deciding to get into another field? What if non edible crops are the most profitable and nothing lures farmers into growing food crops instead of crap like switch grass to make fuel from?
You can have less government. Its what we have had throughout human history. A history rife with famine, starvation....
Sounds great.
originally posted by: 38181
a reply to: olaru12
Exactly...Field Corn and soybeans, as far as you can see from the East Coast to Eastern Colorado. Cash crops.
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
a reply to: JAGStorm
LOL, really?
We have ages upon ages of vanished civilizations because of drought. Pyramids covered in blood as starving people tried to appease their gods.
Sure, your great grandparents ate well. They were in the process of ruining the most fertile soil in the world. Once the dust bowl happened, it became readily obvious that a plan was needed.
originally posted by: BiffWellington
originally posted by: Bluntone22
You are only looking at the issue from one side.
Consider a farmers.
You plant a crop.
Pray for rain, but not to much.
You hope for the best.
You harvest with a $250k machine that you use 3 weeks out of the year.
Then somebody else tells you what you are going to get paid.
Cut the subsidies if you want but dont bitch about $8 gallons of milk.
$16 pounds of cheese.
Etc...
So my money should be taken from me by the government and given to another individual because he or she chose a career in which they couldn't make a living? Makes perfect sense. Go Murka!
originally posted by: Bluntone22
a reply to: olaru12
Just stop with the maga crap.
You know damn well that ethanol subsidies existed long before trump was president.
So did corporate farms.
originally posted by: projectvxn
a reply to: olaru12
So you're gonna troll?
Neat.
Let us all know when you're done with that and can have an adult conversation.