Re:The myths we tell ourselves about American farming
by nitwit005 on Saturday September 02, 2023 @12:46PM
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Except the government intervenes to deliberately raise food prices all the time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairy_Price_Support_Program
Re:The myths we tell ourselves about American farming
by bequanna on Saturday September 02, 2023 @06:37PM
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This 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.
> 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.