Equus Pallidus Steps In It

Not to be pickin' on ya' EP, but looks like these fellas sprung an ambush from where I'm sittin'.

FT

What makes me mad is people who drive on roads everyday don't mind taxes going for matenance of said roads. Yet they don't see agriculture as part of our infrastructure, it is just crazy.
equus pallidus | Email | Homepage | 02.07.06 - 7:40 pm | #

What makes me mad is people who drive on roads everyday don't mind taxes going for matenance of said roads. Yet they don't see agriculture as part of our infrastructure, it is just crazy.

What?! Are you nuts? Are you advocating publicly owned farms?

First off, regarding roads, almost everyone uses them and nobody wants toll booths, so we pay taxes - there's near universal agreement about this (outside the fever swamps of VoxVolk). Not so with farm products. There's absolutely zero problem getting people to wait in line and pay for beef and bread as they want them, there's a very nice system for doing this that has been in place for years, maybe even decades.
Bill | Email | Homepage | 02.08.06 - 8:34 am | #

No Bill

I am talking about any kind of farm subside and people cry murder.
equus pallidus Edit comment Delete comment | Email | Homepage | 02.08.06 - 3:54 pm | #

ep, sorry as a farmer I disagree with you. I believe that those subsides hae been the cause of the continued disappearence of the family farm. The government subsides mass production, the enemy of hard work and time value that the family farmer has to offer. I can beat the big operations hands down on low cost of production because I have time and labor to put into the mix. Mass production is more expense and requires a government handout to keep them going.
farmer Tom | Email | Homepage | 02.08.06 - 7:35 pm | #

FT

They took away the dairy subsidies and almost all the small dairy's went out of business.

They took away the peanut subside and My brother is about the only one left in the county that did not go out of business.

Then they heep more and more regulation on them, unpaid mandates, that put many out of buisness.

The subside's are what keep the small farmer in business. I have worked in agriculture professionally for 20 years. I have been to hundres of farms and I have seen what this has done.
equus pallidus | Email | Homepage | 02.08.06 - 8:14 pm | #