UAFitter; I am willing to bet that you work in a job that has a minimum wage per hour floor under it. The Government actually works to boost wages. Farmers sell a commodity that has its price manipulated by the Government to keep the price as low as possible. I do not see that being done to any other manufactures.
As for the farmer setting a price and being very successful at it. It only works in small volume nitch markets. My grand daughters will sell maybe 700-1000 bushels this way. That is not much of a dent in the 500,000 bushels the farms produce.
Also What the fellow in Des Moines is trying to do is pass the buck on his problem to someone that MIGHT be causing him the problem. He has ZERO documentation that it is farmers causing the nitrate issue in the water he is pumping. Then the height of irony is that the Des Moines water department dumps the nitrates they remove form the water back into the river down stream form where they intake. I think that they should be on the hot seat for that.
Why does Des Moines still take river water for their drinking water supply???? The wells in the area do not show nitrate issues like the river does. Does the cities/towns up river from Des Moines raise the nitrates form dumping their sewage into the river???
The issue is that many outside interests are ganging up on the farmers in those three counties. There have been little scientific studies done to support the water CEO's claims but his statements are treated as fact by many groups. Water keepers being the most vocal about it. Then the left is using this issue to try and control all waterways in the US. No matter how little. Look up where land owners are being threatened for building small farm ponds. Just this last spring/summer a fellow won a court case on this issue but it cost him $75K to do it and four years of his life.
You also talk about child labor laws. We can not hire a non family kid under 16 to operate any type of motorized equipment. This includes a lawn mower. If you were around a farm did you drive a tractor before then???? We used to have neighbor kids that worked after school. Now we can not. The work included driving tractors and maybe skid steer loaders. I have the sons and daughters of kids that worked for us in the past stop looking for work. I tell them we can't hire them anymore.
I could go on for pages but I will quit now. I am not asking for a hand out. I just want to be left alone!!!!! Things that have been done a certain way for generations are now trying to be outlawed. Much of it with little proof that there was harm being done to anyone or anything.
My Grand father stated this fifty years ago and time has proven him right. "The federal government is slowly creeping towards communism." The current climate of asset envy is just the newest form of separating the people.
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