Take away the damn corn subsidy and listen to the screams.
>> Take away the damn corn subsidy and listen to the screams. <<
I have gotten into arguments with my farmer brother over this, I asked him, what if they took away you federal subsidies, and at the same time they lowered your taxes by 50%?
He thought for a moment and realized that he pays more in taxes by a factor of three than what he gets from the fed government for crop subsidies any given year and that this would be a better alternative....
That shut him right up, especially when I told him he could earn interest all year on the extra tax money he wouldn’t have to pay verses the money the government takes and then doles back to him.
I think then he realized that the government takes with one hand and gives back a paltry sum with the other. When you cut out the bureaucracy you get to keep more.
I am still working on him as he is a “Dad voted Democrat too”. The funny thing is my Dad would listen to Rush all of the time so he could complain about him, I used to ride with dad when he did irrigation and listened to Rush by his side and that was the begging of my conversion from Democrat farm kid to a Libertarian Conservative. Thanks Dad!