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Old 10-15-2008, 09:47 PM  
Axeman
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Originally Posted by Brad Mitchell View Post
I think I would like to learn more about the subsidies. Even though I'm all about going green, things still have to make sense. The reality about farming in the US is it's like 95% large corporations or something large like that anyways. Subsidies are just another way of saying even though your business isn't viable we're not going to make you work it out but rather give you a fat profit.

Brad
The biggest problem I have with it is that corn takes up so much precious space of our farm land and since we subsidize it, we promote farmers turn their land into this instead of growing actual farm goods that the consumers would use for food which drives up our prices on veggies and forces our import from elsewhere.
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