Posted on 03/07/2015 9:13:01 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Edited on 03/07/2015 10:41:56 AM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
FARGO, N.D. (AP)
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This kind of “aid” shouldn’t exist at all.
Aren’t some of the biggest abusers of farm programs rich liberals that never get their fingernails dirty?
The biggest victim of fraud are those who legitimately suffer loss and have to jump through multiple hoops to collect on their policies due to those who commit fraud. As for the public’s losses, probably doesn't even come close to the wine tab at the White House each year (which was declared a state secret and no longer possible to use a FIOA request to retrieve.. Can't let the little people know how much is being spent on wine, can we?)
Pigford.
If you ever decide you hate your life and want to punish yourself, drive down 412 in the Oklahoma Panhandle; the most boring stretch of road in the world. Notice the houses along that road. Look at the trucks parked at those houses. Those farmers hit pay-dirt with government subsidies. If I’m wrong, someone straighten me out.
Because of corrupted government and corrupted citizens this and similar articles are easy to believe without question.
However, such articles lack information regarding how their fraud was discovered. Does the government monitor the legitimacy of subsidy programs?
Experiences provide evidence that a government subsidy will create a new demand. Armed with this knowledge does the government set up monitoring at the advent of the subsidy or do they wait for evidence that they should have set up monitoring.
Defrauding the tax payers exist in all government welfare programs.
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In farm country, all your neighbors (or whoever farms nearby land) know exactly what goes on with your crops and livestock. Insurance adjusters in such areas have usually been farmers themselves.
“Aren’t some of the biggest abusers of farm programs rich liberals that never get their fingernails dirty?”
Yeah, I know a rich liberal in Santa Barbara, CA who owns a large farm in Indiana. Great tax offsets, and free money for NOT growing crops.
His [Major Major's father's] specialty was alfalfa, and he made a good thing out of not growing any. The government paid him well for not growing any. The government paid him well for every bushel of alfalfa he did not grow. The more alfalfa he did not grow, the more money the government gave him, and he spent every penny he didn't earn on new land to increase the amount of alfalfa he did not produce. Major Major's father worked without rest at not growing alfalfa. On long winter evenings he remained indoors and did not mend harness, and he sprang out of bed at the crack of noon every day just to make certain that the chores would not be done. He invested in land wisely and soon was not growing more alfalfa than any other man in the country.
I have seen list of big farm subsidy recipients and remember that many Hollywood celebrities and other known very wealthy people are collecting government subsidies on their “farms”.
Yes, when the government does it, it Is legal
In recent years alot of farmers in that region hit pay dirt with mineral rights.
There, I fixed it.
Good for them, but they do get a lot of subsidies. Of course, we know subsidies are really just padded shackles.
Oh great, now the farmers are crooks too! But then I guess they have been for some time.
Getting Government Farm Subsidies for Dummies book??
I've been unaware I could do this legally.
Thanks in advance
Has anyone documented the many ways the insurance companies, doctors and especially fake patients will defraud Obamacare and especially expanded Medicaid? Some of the “fraud” will be legal. Some will be illegal. Most illegality will depend on “flexible” interpretation of the CMS rules and regulations and on who is doing the interpretation.
Most of this grew out of the Federal Governments efforts to control prices during the Great Depression. The wanted lower prices or higher prices depending on which perceived problem that they wished to fix on any given day.
As laid out in a famous Supreme Court decision in 1942, the Federal Government was given vast powers to regulate economic activity ever since.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
The barn door was opened and it hasn’t been closed since. Politicians have jumped in with glee in order to advance their political ambitions. Republicans tend to prefer putting money into the pockets of farmers and Democrats like to go for subsidized or free food products into the hands of low income city dwellers. The schemes are varied and complex, but there is no shortage of pigs at the trough. These guys are pikers, but the government needs to make an example of the occasional small fry in order to perpetuate the myth that these programs are benificial and promote the general welfare.
Farmers can’t plant whatever they want, they have to conform to government regulators and in return they get a handout for letting the government control their livlihood. The major benefit is to the career politician.
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