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Re:Too Hot for TED: Income Inequality by MartinCron on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @09:22PM (#3984903)
Corn farmers all get their money in the same way. Billionaires? Not so much.
Re:Too Hot for TED: Income Inequality by matwood on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @09:58PM (#3984988)
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.

Re:Too Hot for TED: Income Inequality by dfc on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @09:45PM (#3984951)
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?
Re:Too Hot for TED: Income Inequality by philwelch on Thursday May 17, 2012 @12:26AM (#3985423)
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.
Re:Too Hot for TED: Income Inequality by dfc on Thursday May 17, 2012 @12:49PM (#3987850)
Iowa primaries...