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> To get there, she said, farmland owners need to be taxed at a higher rate, and we need to do away with the American notion that people can do whatever they wa
by legitster 3y ago
> To get there, she said, farmland owners need to be taxed at a higher rate, and we need to do away with the American notion that people can do whatever they want on their private property:
Keep in mind that a lot of the history/explanation is flat out wrong or trying to take inspiration from the 1619 Project - farms get all sorts of regulatory carve-outs because a) they still control huge swaths of land and huge parts of the economy of most of the states b) and increases in food prices would be a political disaster for everyone else.
Yes, it's kind of a myth that farmers are numerous, poor, destitute, etc. But the article is literally begging the question of why don't we just impose more cost on farming, and the answer is so obvious without needing to delve into a fraught debunking.
- nitwit005 3y agoExcept the government intervenes to deliberately raise food prices all the time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairy_Price_Support_Program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairy_Price_Support_Program
- bequanna 3y agoThis is price support in extremely volatile commodity price periods to reduce the number of farms that going under. We want to maintain a high supply of food and need producers to do that without thinking they could go bankrupt next year. Seems reasonable to me.
- nitwit005 3y agoNo one said anything negative about the policy.
- Barracoon 3y agoRather than just claiming that the history is “flat out wrong”, it’d sure be neat if you provided some sources the back that up.
- mcpackieh 3y ago[flagged]