Show of Hands

Subsidies are important but unfortunately they go to the corporate farmers who don't need subsidies and the small farmers are left on the short end.

Surprised by the results. Guess people don't mind the politicians bribing the general public with their tax dollars.

A misleading question for sure. That may have been what subsidies were for in the beginning, now they are used by large agricultural firms to make more money.

Just take a trip along the 17 freeway you will see nothing in the fields, why because its snowing and its cold. South America is the best place to grow crops why because its warm and sunny right now.

No...and heres why. The United States is the worst place to grow crops year round. Most farm land is used for only a couple months out of the year and then is left vacant the rest. That farm land can be used for housing people, producing electricty.

this is for small farmers like my cousin right? (sorry for the strong language so Christians close yer eyes lol) fuck the big business farms

What a stupid ideal. We pay the government to pay the farmer. Why don't we just pay the farmer.

It's simple, charge the same amount for our natural resources that the Middle East charges for their natural resources and you will solve more than just this one problem.

Only for organic!!!

Most of the Farm Bill is food stamps. Just say'n

If you get a farmer to talk to you about it honestly , I bet that most of them will tell you that they are quite able to figure what and how much to grow without any money in their back pocket from Uncle Sugar Daddy. Special interests at work. Shock

Read the news and the bill:

Waste, Fraud and Abuse!

We need to eliminate the corporate farms (Monsanto) and reinvest in the family owned farms.

Most of our produce isn't produced here now. We subsidize not to produce.

Unfortunately, too much of the farm subsidies go to NOT growing or destroying crops, which is immoral when citizens are going hungry.

I doubt the farmers would accept

Subsiding industrial farming, aeronautics, etc, one one hand, and criticizing European countries to for more of the same on the other... Governmental overreach meets hypocrisy! This has to stop.

Well....it gives "too big to fail" a new meaning.....

This question is actually just a big rhetorical question because we have so much irritable land that, should we need it, we can feed ourselves without help from any nation or subsidy.

We own a business. It's sink or swim for us. Any subsidies are just vote buying. Usually by libs, but I'll bet more conservatives support this. I don't know that for a fact though.

Subsidies should not go to any private business. I mean after all the government is the role model of how NOT to run a company. Every company should be on a level playing field. No picking favorites.

The reality of the situation is that family farms are almost extinct. Farm subsidies go straight to Cargill and Monsanto, not Farmer Bob. Geez, do your research, people!

Mom, that's sad but true.

No, the government should not subsidize anything.

It manipulates markets, promotes inefficiencies, and restricts innovation.

Yes

NOT to factory farms. Family farms, yes, certainly they should!

Libertarians, please explain....

Subsidies to smaller farmers because for small farmers without them they can't get loans that allow them to go forward. I would like the govt to diversify the crops subsidize to make healthier foods cheaper. Right now the most goes to corn and soy.

This poll is a result of linguistic persuasion. Written in such a way that it sounds nice so people votes yes. stated differently: "do you approve of the fed govt using tax dollars to give handout subsidies to farmers that raise costs to consumers?"

Large corporate farmer=no
Smaller family farms=maybe

The subsidies mostly go to a relatively small number of megafarms. It's another form of welfare for the rich.

not that subsidies are the answer but something needsbto be done to get farmers back to farming

How about reduce taxes on farmers and eliminate certain laws instead of providing subsidies.

farmers make a lot more money than most of us.

To actually grow food, sure. To not grow something, no.

At least there's one type of socialism that most everyone can agree on

Just more corporate welfare going to the very people (corporations) who decry "entitlements" and falsely proclaim the virtues of free market capitalism.

If we were only preserving family farms perhaps I could agree but most of the billions go to giant agribusinesses.

If we had the same policy in the 1800's we would still be guaranteeing the price of horse shoes and every town would have multiple blacksmiths.

Well the government bailed out the car companies, the banks and AIG. Farmers deserve help too. They feed us.

33% can starve in WWIII

Absolutely not.

NO! The fed's intervention raises the prices of food, harming the poorest most. It keeps out perfectly good foodstuffs from elsewhere. Take Cuban sugar for instance. It raises the price of corn and then buys the stuff to make ethanol...

what an incredibly biased question. you should have left out the bit about Chiba because that isn't the result if they are removed.

How come in just about every poll on here, the folks in Arizona vote differently than the rest of the country? Lol...what is that all about?

But also: why sd we pay farmers to burn or let the food go bad to limit supply and elevate prices?

Subsidies are probably cheaper than the cost of inspecting (haha) and health costs of the ick and sick of imported food. (think: Chinese dog food poisons).

I'm all for free trade but food is one issue I'm kind of iffy on. I really don't want to be eating things grown in China with sub-standard practices.

This one is hard. On one had, why should they be subsidized? On the other, they need to make a living because they are doing a very important service for our country.

No more corn subsidies!!! The average farmer cannot even feed themselves a unite because they grow shit corn for high fructose corn sryup