WAPO: God might have made the farmer; do taxpayers make him rich?
February 22, 2013 at 1:14 am in The Daily Republic
Farmers are wealthy, the U.S. food supply is not remotely at risk and yet the government still piles on the subsidies.
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What! Cap subsidies at $125,000 per farmer or $250,000 for a married couple! Talk about taking bread off the farmers table. A farmer got to feed his family you know! Let’s see, how does that go…on the 8th day God made subsidies! For the past 4 years we Republicans have been shouting NO, NO and Heck NO to any type of subsidies! We TeaPublicans, along with Rep. Kristi Noem, have told you over and over again how we must keep government out of our lives and cut, cut and then cut some more entitlement programs and subsidies! And she is RIGHT and I am proud of her for doing that! Yes we can! We can cut Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and farm subsidies and save America! We TeaPublicans ARE going to take back America in 2014 and 2016! And we will take back tht farm bill too!
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sayin’ is not doin’
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You better re-check your facts on the Noem “family farm”.
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What are you talking about? Kristi Noem does not want to cut subsidies to farmers and she won’t. Look how much her very own family farm has taken. She is not about to cut anything to farmers either since that group is some of her biggest supporters for that very reason. Typical South Dakotan attitude-everyone is a leach on the system, except me, of course (even though SD takes $1.57 in federal money for every dollar it pays in). She is not about to cut corporate tax loopholes either, even though she stood right in front of me at her DakotaFest debate and said she would. Righties scream about Obama trying to supposedly buy votes because he wants preschool for all but Kristi, like all republicans, sells her votes to the highest bidder, be it corporations or giant corporate farms.
And why should we cut MediCare and Social Security? I have paid into those programs since I was sixteen. The are called entitlements because I AM entitled to them. Why? Because I have and will continue to pay into them for my entire working life.
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Any farmer making $125K a year with help from subsidies isn’t eating bread. He’s getting fat off the cake, and washing it down with the milk he sucks from the government’s teat. He deserves to choke.
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What happened in 2012 when tea nuts lost?
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Corporate welfare is about what it amounts to….
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Exactly right, but no one ever complains about that of the fact that corporations don’t pay taxes.
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I don’t know of any farmer getting that much. If they make over a specific amount of income, they get NO subsidy whatsoever. So if anybody thinks a farmer gets rich from subsidies, better do some reading and the news media is not the place to get the facts. The average Farmer might get up to 10,000 if meets all the criteria before total income limits kick in, will end up with nothing. What does that little mean when an average farmer expenses are over 500,000 per year now…. nothing. Sooooo.. anyone want to try farming??? This article shows that people in the cities know absolutely nothing about farming. They could lower the max down to 20,000 per farmer or 40,000 per couple, would see no difference to government expense.
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I would love to try it, 4-5 months a year you work, and then drive your brand new truck to the coffe shop in the morning and then head to the VFW in the evening, who wouldn’t want to be a farmer…..
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Plenty of city people have relatives that farm. There are very few mysteries if any left to be discovered about the life of the 21st century farmer.
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Food stamps and other domestic nutrition programs such as emergency food assistance: just over 66 percent, about $200 billion.
Subsidies for rice, cotton, corn, soybeans, wheat and other crops: 14 percent, around $43 billion.
Conservation programs to set aside or protect environmentally sensitive farmland: 9 percent, about $27 billion.
Crop insurance to help farmers protect against losses: 8 percent, about $23 billion.
Foreign food aid would make up less than one percent of the bill, costing less than $200 million. The bulk of international food assistance is in annual appropriations bills.
http://allamericanblogger.com/2803/breakdown-of-the-farm-bill-spending-where-does-the-money-go/
Farmers are only 2 years away from massive income losses at any time. It’s happened before, ended in auction sales. low prices of late 90s- mid 2000′s put many farms under.
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No, I don’t know anything about farming but the issue is still very cloudy. A quick check found that Noem PERSONALLY received only about 1300 a year but the the family ranch got close to 3 million since ’95. I have friends with small businesses and they don’t receive ANY government subsidies.
The real problem I have with the situation is that farmers have NO problem telling city people to pull themselves up and stop taking welfare or unemployment when the prospects for them are very slim also.City mouse/Country mouse….story is the same.
Farmers are 2 yrs away from massive income losses at any time? In SD, an at will employment state, any manufacturing worker is 1 hr. from massive income losses at any time.
Everybody has problems…….except big business.
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