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<blockquote data-quote="ConstitutionCowboy" data-source="post: 2846595" data-attributes="member: 745"><p>Poor planning in ANY business is one of the root causes of business failure. It doesn't matter if it is farming or the auto industry. Make provisions for bad times and insurance is unnecessary. You say that if it wasn't for government subsidizing the crop insurance industry, crop insurance wouldn't exist. Ergo, since it does exist, crop FAILURE is subsidized. </p><p></p><p>We the People who pay taxes are, therefore, paying for failed crops when, as in any other business, bad years are prepared for with reserves that have been set aside for such emergencies. </p><p></p><p>In either case of the government covering farming losses or farmers being prepared for their losses, We the People pay. I'd rather the farmers charge a little more and fund their own losses than do it through the government. The government doesn't do these things for nothing, and only a percentage of what is taken in is used to subsidize the insurance. The insurance industry doesn't do it for nothing either. The insurance companies are in the business for profit - profit that is skimmed off the top. That makes TWO pair of hands skimming off the top - the government and the insurance industry. </p><p></p><p>I think the cost of living would be less for everyone with out the government and crop insurance company middlemen. What little the cost of food would rise would be - HAS to be - less than what the hidden costs of subsidized crop insurance and crop insurance company profits add to the price of food to the consumer.</p><p></p><p>Besides, if the ends sought cannot be achieved through the means granted to the Federal Government in the Constitution, there is neither a need nor the power for the Federal Government to get involved. I see no such grant of power to the Federal Government to subsidize crop insurance.</p><p></p><p>Woody</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ConstitutionCowboy, post: 2846595, member: 745"] Poor planning in ANY business is one of the root causes of business failure. It doesn't matter if it is farming or the auto industry. Make provisions for bad times and insurance is unnecessary. You say that if it wasn't for government subsidizing the crop insurance industry, crop insurance wouldn't exist. Ergo, since it does exist, crop FAILURE is subsidized. We the People who pay taxes are, therefore, paying for failed crops when, as in any other business, bad years are prepared for with reserves that have been set aside for such emergencies. In either case of the government covering farming losses or farmers being prepared for their losses, We the People pay. I'd rather the farmers charge a little more and fund their own losses than do it through the government. The government doesn't do these things for nothing, and only a percentage of what is taken in is used to subsidize the insurance. The insurance industry doesn't do it for nothing either. The insurance companies are in the business for profit - profit that is skimmed off the top. That makes TWO pair of hands skimming off the top - the government and the insurance industry. I think the cost of living would be less for everyone with out the government and crop insurance company middlemen. What little the cost of food would rise would be - HAS to be - less than what the hidden costs of subsidized crop insurance and crop insurance company profits add to the price of food to the consumer. Besides, if the ends sought cannot be achieved through the means granted to the Federal Government in the Constitution, there is neither a need nor the power for the Federal Government to get involved. I see no such grant of power to the Federal Government to subsidize crop insurance. Woody [/QUOTE]
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