It's the price of cheap food for Americans. People who bich about food prices should have to shop for their groceries in other countries where there are no "subsidies". Without the current "subsidies" many farmers would go broke, go out of business, their farmland would be sold, and corporate farms would likely buy up the land and, with drastically fewer farms (of much larger size) growing your food, they could likely reach the size necessary to manipulate production in order to control/manipulate the markets. This would bring extreme prices for food, or shortages of the same. Is that what you want in place of piecemeal, partial price protection for farmers? Because, that's the alternative.
Another relevant point .......... when a unilateral embargo of American agricultural commodities can be used by the Feds to bring another nation to it's knees, and the commodities market crashes for farmers who grow/own those commodities, should not that same government provide something in return to the farmers, such as price protections? This has been done twice in my lifetime of farming, and the markets crashed causing thousands of farms to go broke. When commodity prices are good there are no PLC "subsidies" paid out. No one mentions that though, even though that's the price of a stable, reasonably priced food supply.
Next time you bich about "subsidies" don't do it with your mouth full.
The lady doth protest too much.
What’s in a name? That which we call a crony capitalist. By any other name would still be a smelly socialist.
(To be fair to Shakespeare I’m paraphrasing, but that’s basically what he said.)
Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet. . . and Charlie Daniels
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I betcha he’s even gotta commie flag tacked up on the wall inside of his garage.
