#1, that's just another liberal myth perpetuated by a "have-not" who's too lazy to work himself up to a "have".
I'm a farmer. I get no govt. subsidies neither does any one I know in my community who's prime income source is ranching and farming.
You want to scream subsidies, you need to look at the CO2 spewing corn producing ethanol industry. Had a friend over who retired from BP Amoco and then became a consultant for the petro-chemical industry. He laid it all out and to make a long story short regarding the ethanol producing feel good liberal farce, said now that the govt. subsidies and demand have dried up, the ethanol producing industries and spin offs are going bankrupt. This failure has been going on for years too.
"Ethanol producers are panicking amid speculation that the ethanol mandate could be drastically reduced or scrapped entirely this year as the biofuel loses its allure and bipartisan allies and former friends team up against it."
http://oilprice.com/Alternative-Ene...s-Panic-as-Ethanol-Mandate-Loses-Support.html
http://ethanolproducer.com/articles/6697/beating-bankruptcy
http://www.startribune.com/drop-in-oil-price-squeezes-ethanol-producers/291209431/
Uncle Ben
Hey, Farmer Ben, you take out crop insurance don't you? Those policies are underwritten and costs are subsidized by the federal govt.
http://www.ewg.org/agmag/2015/03/crop-subsidies-soar-under-2014-farm-bill-reforms
"Two new crop subsidy programs – Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) – are at the heart of the dramatic increase in payouts, the Briefing Book reports. The Institute’s researchers estimate that the two new types of coverage will generate more than $24 billion in payments over the 2014-2018 life of the farm bill. That’s $2.4 billion more than the “
direct payment” subsidies the new crop subsidy plans replaced, which cost taxpayers $21.6 billion from 2009 through 2013."
You can thank your republican lawmakers for giving you this nipple to suck on. Its a nice titty isn't it?
It isn't hard to find other ag subsidies but this one is easy, so I'll go with it first.
1st off, I wouldn't hold it against you if you take advantage of this program. It's skewed towards the big industrial farms and needs to be reworked but it can keep a small farmer going in the face of all the advantages that the big guys have.
2nd, we agree on the destructive nature of corn based ethanol. If it goes away, then good riddance.
3rd, you don't know anything about me or my work ethic. You assume that "liberal" means slacker. You are not very informed. Actually, liberal people are the majority in this nation and make up most of the productive workforce. Red states, generally with low populations and full of right-wingers are, with a few exceptions, the places where the government puts more into subsidies than it gets out in taxes. Blue states with a majority of sensible people who understand that they are part of a larger society and understand how to add value to their work, are places where the government gets more out of taxes than it puts in via subsidies.
Still we all need food to fuel us in our endeavors, whether it be in the farm or the factory, so I hold no grudge against you getting yours from the govt. I just wish you'd own up to it.