Posted on 05/05/2019 6:06:07 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Sunday proposed a sweeping agriculture and rural investment plan to break up big agriculture monopolies and shift farm subsidies toward small family farmers.
“I think a farmer that produces the food we eat may be almost as important as some crook on Wall Street who destroys the economy,” Sanders said during a campaign event in Osage, a town of fewer than 4,000 people. “Those of us who come from rural America have nothing to be ashamed about, and the time is long overdue for us to stand up and fight for our way of life.”
Sanders’ plan expands on themes that have been central to his presidential campaign in Iowa since the start, including his emphasis on rural America and pledge to take on and break up big corporations.
During his Sunday speech, Sanders outlined the dire circumstances confronting rural America — population decline, school and hospital closures and rising addiction and suicide rates in many rural counties nationwide — as the impetus for his policy.
His plan includes a number of antitrust proposals, including breaking up existing agriculture monopolies and placing a moratorium on future mergers by big agriculture companies. He would also ban “vertically integrated” agribusinesses — companies that control multiple levels of production and processing of a product. …
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The breaking up monopolies part I could support. Having so much power over food supplies is not good.
That be the Burnster...
How about busting up IT monopolies..?
Agrarian reform? How collectivist of Sanders.
So .5 percent is the target to ‘break up’?
Welfare Govopolies.
Maybe, but I’m guessing Bernie is ignorant of how many of his proposals are already in effect.
If he was proposing the breakup of big meat processors and prosecuting them for hiring illegals, he’d be on to something. As it is, he’s just on something....
It ain’t real socialism unless you destroy the food source as well. Feel the Bern....
And just how do you break them up?
Dumbass. The biggest agricultural monopolist is the us dept of agriculture.
And both are better than these Socialist leaning nitwits who think we won’t become another Venezuela if they get their way.
He just wants GOVERNMENT to be the agricultural monopoly.
Of course I know in Bernie’s case, as with all collectivists it’s the classic Commie bait-and-switch. Promise the peasants land for their support, then seize the land to create Collective Farms.
Bernie wants the US farming system like that of Africa, run off the white farmers, give land to everyone and hope they know how to farm and feed us. Sorry Bernie it is the large scale farming enterprises that make money.
Such as Facebook, Google, Instagram and Twitter? Oh, wait...
How about really busting up looters in CONgre$$ $ocialist $anders? YOU could be 1st in line you POS. Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Frederic Bastiat
That and his new plan called the “Soylent Green” initiative.
Yes, and how about busting up large law firms, networks, and other entertainment trusts?
(And the clinton, soros, and boomberg syndicates, or however they might be classed.)
How soon will the kulaks from Monsanto be shot?
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