Aske, maybe you should stick with engineering, as you know jack sh1t about farming.
Perhaps you'd rather pay $12/gal of milk?
What Aske said.
Don't have a problem with farm subsidies for that allow FAMILY farmers to stay in business, although subsidies that keep Conagra's price above 20 bucks a share might be a different matter. Same thing for subsidies that keep *feces* like bread riots from happening.
But if you're going to make a career out of screeching 'Socialism Is EVIL' at every available opportunity, it would behoove you to check and make sure you haven't been benefiting from one of the oldest forms of Socialism in America to the tune of 250 large for the last 10 years.
Because if it turns out that you ARE receiving significant amounts of Socialist Gubment Money from both your family farm AND your baby farm, people might start to suspect that the only REAL problem you have is that somebody darker than a caramel might get the same benefits you do.
Again, you're missing the point. The dairy farms are getting the money, because the government doesn't want the milk buying public paying a high dollar amount for milk. If the farmers were getting the true value on the market, there would be no need for the subsidy. But, because the gov't doesn't want that welfare recipient to have to use more of their food stamp money for milk, they fix the price at the market. They then make up the difference to the farmer in the form of a subsidy.
Again, I ask you, do you want to pay double for a gallon of milk? It's either that or let the dairy farms go under, and we can import milk. As it is, even with subsidies, dairy farmers are dumping their milk down the drains and selling off their cows because they're losing money. As a taxpayer in this country, I'd much rather see the dairy farmers get the price at the market so that they wouldn't need the subsidy.
