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Originally Posted by buggyone
The food stamp program does not dictate what food can be bought with the card. If a family receives $350 on their card per month, they can buy $350 worth of lobster tail or $350 of chicken, turkey, and spaghetti. Which goes further for feeding the family during the month?
The Federal government does not tell you what you can buy with your Social Security retirement each month, does it?
Regarding dairy subsidies, I remember reading in history books about dairy farmers dumping milk in sewers because of low prices caused by over production. Dairy subsidies were created to buy the milk at a guaranteed price to prevent this - so I doubt that elimination of a dairy subsidy and putting milk on the "free market" would raise prices. If dairy farmers thought they could get more money on the "free market", they would not be spending so much money in lobbying their Congress reps to keep it in place.
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I think much deeper reading needs to be required to make a sensible personal decision about milk subsidies. I have close family who still operate a small dairy farm. They are the anomaly in dairy farms, most are huge corporate farms subsidized by the government. You are not talking about the little farmer anymore. Most dairy farms have mega milk operations and hire Mexicans for cheap labor.
A young man in his 30's in the neighborhood obtained a loan for over one million and built an operation out of the blue. He spent so much money it made all of our heads spin and then he had trouble making the payments. Bank told him to bring in more cows and start milking even more.
And then what chemicals, antibiotics and hormones are milk drinkers consuming with these huge operations. As I said, do some research and dig deep.
Even deeper investigation should performed regarding farm subsidies in general. I don't know if this is still true but not that long ago there was a feature regarding some lawmakers making nice money off of these subsidies to land owners. Perhaps things have changed but I doubt it, personally.