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Translation: The USDA plans to increase subsidies for farmers.

Not that I'm necessarily against such a thing. Food price stability is very important, and farm subsidies are an important way that we ensure it in the USA.

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Well yes, but in a particular way that increases production of fertilizer locally, which not all subsidies for farmers do.

Farmers, in turn, vote for "Small Government" because they don't like people living off welfare. smh

I don't like the line of thinking here. You're saying farmers are the same as those receiving welfare, its not fair to either group. Farmers receive subsidies for the greater good especially of those eating the products of their work.

It's the cognitive dissonance of a certain party that equates socialism with evil when it's distributed fairly but a necessity when influential special interests receive a benefit.

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