The very short, condensed, answer is this: Politicians don't want to face voters angry about food prices.
I have a much more detailed answer, but the last 50 years of farm programs all boil down to the previous sentence.
“Politicians don’t want to face voters angry about food prices.”
My understanding of farm “subsidies” is they increase prices. For example, the price of milk is not set by supply and demand. The government decrees it’s x which ensures and ample profit over costs. (It also removes all competition and any incentive to modernize or cut costs.)
They could restore the import tariffs, and they wouldn’t have to do as much subsidizing.
Restoring the import tariffs would bring a lot of industries back to America and fix our unemployment problem too.
They could restore the import tariffs, and they wouldn’t have to do as much subsidizing.
Restoring the import tariffs would bring a lot of industries back to America and fix our unemployment problem too.