Are we really subsidizing the tobacco farmers with public money?
Yep....8/
Are we really subsidizing the tobacco farmers with public money?
If the .gov didn't have a hand in the regulation of prices, then you would have a case.
Farms have a hard time making ends meet because the price of milk, beef, and other produce is partially government regulated.
Yes, food is a necessity. But if you are willing to forgo the ability to grow it yourself, and pay someone else to do it; then that person should be able to make a reasonable living doing so.
People scream about farm subsidies and Gov setting prices... until the price of milk rises to $8 a gallon and $100 worth of groceries become $300 worth of groceries
Price of food is going to skyrocket now.
The nearly 1,000-page compromise farm bill is designed to have something for everyone. There's more money for crop insurance popular in the Midwest, higher peanut and rice subsidies for Southern farmers and the renewal of federal land payments for Western states.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie...ME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-01-28-15-37-06
AFAIK, the only 50-state legal commercial crop in the US that doesn't have some sort of Federal assistance/subsidy/insurance/interference is hay.Are we really subsidizing the tobacco farmers with public money?
Under cover of SOTU media coverage, Congress is set to sneak through the first big farm bill since 2008. The Congressional Budget Office released its estimate of the bill’s cost: $956 billion over 2014-2023. It would thus mean almost $1 trillion more borrowed from U.S. and foreign creditors, adding more weight to the anchor pulling down the living standards of our children and grandchildren.
If you are a reporter, please don’t write that the farm bill “slashes” anything. Even according to the official score, it just trims $16.5 billion from expected spending of $956 billion over the decade, which is just 1.7 percent. The food stamp (“nutrition”) portion of the bill trims just $8 billion from expected spending of $756 billion, which is just 1.1 percent.
However, the 2014 farm bill is not a cut at all when compared to the 2008 farm bill, which was projected to cost $640 billion over 10 years. That is a 49 percent spending increase.
Sure, the new bill shuffles the farm subsidy deck chairs, but the bill’s main budget attribute is that it ratifies the huge recent increase in food stamp spending. The House bill had proposed trimming a modest $39 billion (5 percent) from food stamps, but Republican leaders caved in and agreed to just a token 1 percent trim in the final bill.
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