What your opinion on Farm Subsidies?

Question

Here is a little background on how it works, lets say you’re a lettuce farmer and you receive government assistance the government sees the price of lettuce falling so they come to you and say plow your crop under this year oh and here’s a check from the tax payers that have no ideal what is happening.

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So you think the setting president should abolish NAFTA?

Answer 1

That's nice. That's how it's supposed to work.

Here's how it does work. Farmers who are dead are collecting farm subsidies. Tobbacco farmers are collecting farm subsidies. Farmers in foreign nations are collecting US farm subsidies.

At the same time, US farmers are being leveraged out by real estate developers. Farmers are being sued by neighboring condo owners because their cows make manure. And Farmers are contiuning to employ illegal immegrants to pick their crops while paying them pennies on the dollar (not to mention the fact that you never see any port-o-johns in those fields, so where do these laborers do their doo?)

Get rid of subsidies. If they really are needed, make legitimate farmers help reform the program.

Answer 2

With all the 'Free Trade' we have with beggar poor countries, salaries of $1 a day or $1 a week, its a wonder there are any farmers left in the US. Some long forgotten poor soul said we better help the farmers play thru a poor crop year so that there will be somebody to farm the next year. Less than 1% of US people are producing everybodys food now. The enviros are joining in also, with all their roadblocks to farming, and tearing out dams, the life blood of food production and of people trying to live a normal life. Some how people in the US have to feel the importance of farming to a nation. The Irish give their farmers many perks after going thru a potato famine with people starving to death. The Crow indians will not kill their dogs. They would have all starved to death in the 1880's if they did not have dogs to eat one severe winter. I suppose we will have to have a famine or more poisoned food before the farmers will be left alone and encouraged to farm as only they know how to.

Answer 3

Your scenario is false. There are no federal programs that pay farmers not to grow crops, much less plow under existing crops.

Answer 4

I am a free market capitalist.

That should tell you how I feel about any kind of subsidies:

In the end they hurt the consumer and the market.

Answer 5

good for the farmer.