Re:The American Jobs Plan Will Make Our Infrastructure Crisi...
by drewcoo on Thursday April 15, 2021 @12:38AM
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The Heritage Foundation claims that farm subsidies are not for national security.[1] From this we can conclude that the purpose of farm subsidies is almost certainly national security. Which is a good thing, because farm subsidies fail to prevent hunger as you claim.[2] Om the other hand, it seems to be less for security than as "socialism for the rich"[3] given how the money is funneled.[4]
[1] https://www.heritage.org/taxes/commentary/farm-subsidies-vs-...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_in_the_United_States
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_for_the_rich_and_cap...
[4] https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/12/31/790261705/fa...
It was fantastic and convenient and everyone loved it. Unfortunately, it was also wildly unprofitable so it went out of business.
Yes, it can be very nice to enjoy things that burn through more money than they generate, but those things simply are not going to last, no matter how much you like them. No matter how much they are a "pattern of life". That which cannot sustain itself, dies.
> You know what else is subsidized? Farms. Should we stop paying for them?
Not a valid comparison. Farms get subsidized to prevent supply and demand swings from creating price shocks and people starving to death. Not because growing food for people to eat is a fundamentally unprofitable endeavor.