"According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3677) about 10% of the monies spent in federal welfare programs, goes to the NON-WORKING poor. Roughly 5% of the entire federal budget. Farm subsidies make up an even smaller percentage of the federal budget, about 0.6%. The problem is most of those subsidies go to so-called large family farms (also entails corporate entities, like Con-Agra), those with revenues over $250,000. This is akin, as one small farmer put it, to "subsidizing land and assets instead of people." The big farms use much of their subsidies to acquire more land, which drives up the price of land, which squeezes out the smaller farms. The ag-subsidies programs were born out of the Depression/Dust Bowl era. They either need to be re-thought or done away with entirely."
Posted on: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 19:11:57 +0000
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