New data released by the federal government reveals that a tremendous number of people have received farm subsidies. People who are not farmers. People who don’t even own farm land. They own land, sure, but they don’t farm on it.
An article on examiner.com boils down some of this new information for you.
It is my staunch belief that the majority of social issues can be resolved by the free market. Time and time again we have found that the free market is an effective arbiter of disputes, but the definition of subsidy is to override the free market, and therefore sabotage its capacity to do so.
Not only does this new farm subsidy data demonstrate rather clearly that the entire system is corrupt (paying out subsidies to completely undeserving parties), but it reminds me just how distasteful I find the federal government’s meddling in the affairs of the marketplace. Toss David Letterman $8,000 because he owns a ranch somewhere? I think not.
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