Meet halfway in the middle on the food stamps (39B from Repubs and 4B from Dems means 21.5B in cuts). And gut the farm insurance subsidy entirely – I know a good amount of farmers in Iowa, Wisconsin, and Southern Minnesota and they are all buying bigger mailboxes to fit all the checks. So I would like to know the reason for increasing this over the next 10 years, it only encourages fraud and abuse. Lastly, why are the valuations of the crops based on the highs from the previous years. Crops should be valued on a 10 year average and throwing out the highest and lowest years.
First I was raised on a working farm so I am not a city sliker.
Subsidies were originally intended to help small family farms not huge corporate monsters that eat $ 1,000,000 plus per year in giveaways that they really don’t need. The idea of farm subsidies has now been conceived in the farmers minds as an entitlement, not welfare that it should be called. Farm subsidies should be fazed out entirely over say five years. They can be put back in place if we have a disaster of some kind in their industry It is now just an entitlement that they expect and feel that they have earned and that is just as wrong as an able bodied person thinking they have earned welfare.
Farm subsidies obviously encourage farmers not to work. It creates a culture of dependency. We need to get rid of this entitlements so they will get back to work and they can achieve their potential.
Meet halfway in the middle on the food stamps (39B from Repubs and 4B from Dems means 21.5B in cuts). And gut the farm insurance subsidy entirely – I know a good amount of farmers in Iowa, Wisconsin, and Southern Minnesota and they are all buying bigger mailboxes to fit all the checks. So I would like to know the reason for increasing this over the next 10 years, it only encourages fraud and abuse. Lastly, why are the valuations of the crops based on the highs from the previous years. Crops should be valued on a 10 year average and throwing out the highest and lowest years.
First I was raised on a working farm so I am not a city sliker.
Subsidies were originally intended to help small family farms not huge corporate monsters that eat $ 1,000,000 plus per year in giveaways that they really don’t need. The idea of farm subsidies has now been conceived in the farmers minds as an entitlement, not welfare that it should be called. Farm subsidies should be fazed out entirely over say five years. They can be put back in place if we have a disaster of some kind in their industry It is now just an entitlement that they expect and feel that they have earned and that is just as wrong as an able bodied person thinking they have earned welfare.
Farm subsidies obviously encourage farmers not to work. It creates a culture of dependency. We need to get rid of this entitlements so they will get back to work and they can achieve their potential.