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So much for that $12 billion in farm aid. Who’s actually getting that money? Big ag?

• duxup 8y ago
  It benefits a lot of farmers actually.... it's just not "enough" for everyone. The whole system seems so propped up by various systems that I'm not sure what a relatively simple one would even look like. Not to say I disagree with incentivizing food production at home altogether.... it's just such a mess.
  • adrr 8y ago
    Doesn't the US spend around $100B a year on farming subsidies from buying crops, to paying people not to farm etc? Not even counting indirect subsidies like requiring ethanol be added to gas.
• bduerst 8y ago
  Why was there a $12 billion farm aid bailout?
  • enraged_camel 8y ago
    China stopped buying soybeans and other produce from the US as part of their retaliation to Trump's tariffs.