"Why should a majority of US taxpayers pay other US taxpayers to do or not do something?
Dean "
Dean, I am supprised that you can't comprehend what a Simple and good working deal the food security act(AKA farm bill) has been for the US and world population.
It is simply a pact between the American farmer and the American public, where in exchange for a few cents of your food dollar, You agree to help protect the farmer from a weather /crop failure/ low market price disaster, and the farmer agrees to grow as much or little of whatever food crop you need, for an assured but minimum cost.
That way the farmer can grow a high risk, low profit food for you because the farmer knows you will support him during a disaster that would otherwise put him out of business.
This system has kept the last and best (2% of the US population) of farms in business while providing the entire population of the US twice over (about 700 million people) with a very stable supply of good food for the lowest cost of any country in the world.
As to why would you pay a farmer not to grow a specific crop ?
Once again it is a pact between ther American people and the farmer.
When you have a rare year or two where weather and all other farming conditions have been near perfect, you will get more of that crop than you need, a surplus, and the crop sells for less than the cost of production. The farmer thinks wow, that crop is so cheap that I cant make any profit on it, so I won't grow it next year and to cut costs, I will get rid of the land and specialized equippment I need to grow that crop.
The government knows the surplus of that food will not last long and want the farmers to maintain the capacity to grow more of that crop in the future, so they make another pact with the farmer. The government says, we don't need any more of that crop right now, so we will pay you enough to pay your bills while that land and machinery is idle. That way the farmer is able to make ends meet while that crop is not produced, and in exchange the government and American people have everything in place to produce more of that crop on short notice before supplies run out. A workable and good deal for both the producers and consumers.
This simple low cost system has kept the US and much of the world well fed at little cost for over 60 years. It's simple and it works.
This post was edited by Jon Hagen at 18:45:55 02/01/14 2 times.
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