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Corn farmers all get their money in the same way. Billionaires? Not so much.

• dfc 14y ago
  Corn farmers who grow corn for human consumption, feed and ethanol are all the same? Small family farmers are the same as giant agri-business farms? Corn farmers in Iowa are the same as corn farmers in New York?
  • philwelch 14y ago
    Their interests are aligned. I'm just making an empirical argument: corn farmers have managed to get themselves a damn good deal from Uncle Sam at the expense of practically everyone else in the world, while George Soros hasn't.
    • dfc 14y ago
      Iowa primaries...
• matwood 14y ago
  Well the corn farmers have helped the economy by getting ethanol into all of the gas. Doing that has lowered mileage (so we spend more) and destroyed engines (so we pay for more service). This doesn't count the extra stuff I now have to buy to keep the ethanol from destroying my engines. At least many gas stations are starting to offer completely ethanol free gas now, although at a premium.