gatsbyxxv
02/08/14 8:03 am
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.
POPCANA
02/07/14 9:28 pm
Surprised by the results. Guess people don't mind the politicians bribing the general public with their tax dollars.
alohabob
02/07/14 7:45 pm
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.
Obamaican
02/07/14 4:11 pm
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.
Obamaican
02/07/14 2:42 pm
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.
GoNiners
02/06/14 11:26 pm
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.
schristo
02/06/14 6:15 pm
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
ohm62
02/06/14 4:46 am
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.
Drathic Over Yonder
02/05/14 11:17 pm
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.
debob texas
02/05/14 10:52 pm
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.
MericaRules
02/05/14 10:37 pm
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.
Gunfighter
02/05/14 9:25 pm
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!
TravisTeach Texas
02/05/14 7:57 pm
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.
ken08106
02/05/14 7:46 pm
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?"
Joed
02/05/14 6:01 pm
Just more corporate welfare going to the very people (corporations) who decry "entitlements" and falsely proclaim the virtues of free market capitalism.
Joed
02/05/14 6:00 pm
If we were only preserving family farms perhaps I could agree but most of the billions go to giant agribusinesses.
Joed
02/05/14 5:59 pm
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.
mark1
02/05/14 5:10 pm
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...
Diknak Ohio
02/05/14 4:29 pm
what an incredibly biased question. you should have left out the bit about Chiba because that isn't the result if they are removed.
MrsSimmons2u Ohio
02/05/14 4:05 pm
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?
kut17
02/05/14 3:26 pm
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.
ldsmom02
02/05/14 3:20 pm
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.
magnum
02/05/14 3:16 pm
No more corn subsidies!!! The average farmer cannot even feed themselves a unite because they grow shit corn for high fructose corn sryup
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