GOP Farm Bill Blueprint 'Puts Big Ag's Profits Over Everyone Else'
"America's farmers and consumers need forward-looking policies that build a sustainable, resilient, and fair food system," said one campaigner.
Based on the subsidies we pay out to farmers year after year it doesn't seem like anything is changing.
It has been for a while though - family farms used to be the recipients of this fund for a mix of reasons involving economic stability and political kickbacks... it was highly controversial with non-farmers but at least that money was going into a section of the economy that would enthusiastically spend that money driving some additional economic growth. In the modern farm landscape this money just goes to line corporate pockets and drive useless wealth inequality growing stock buybacks.
Farmers have been getting special payments all my life. I wouldn’t mind if it was spread around to the rest of us. But we need billionaires, so fuck you and me.
To hear the apologists for rural areas having more rights than everyone else, the rural folk only grow everyone's food for altruistic reasons, and we should all be thanking them for their service...
But how is every teenage farmer going to afford an $60,000 pickup?
The GOP is representing pretty much nothing but corporate interests, and citizen rights repression. A recipe that will take decades to repair, if ever.