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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by bobwilcox</i> <br /><br />[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by CSSHEGEWISCH</i> <br /><br />To futuremodal: What's the point besides subsidized rates for Montana farmers who have been constrained by geography? <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />Montana factoid: In the 8 years between 1995 and 2003 MT farmers got $3,097,849,833 in USDA subsidies( see www.ewg.org/farm/regionsummary.php?fips=30000). Something to ponder between now and April 15 fellow US taxpayers. <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />That's amazing, Bob! Only Montana farmers received USDA subsidies! <br /> <br />Seriously, Bob, why would you use skewed data from an environmental extremist group like the so-called "Environmental Working Group"? Yet another taxpayer-subsidized anti-American econazi faction whose lawyers get a six-figure gift from you and I everytime they file a frivolous lawsuit intended to destroy the U.S. economy. You would do better to get your information from the USDA. <br /> <br />As has been pointed out by those of us who work in agriculture, commodity payments do nothing more than counteract the artificial cost increases that accumulate due to over regulation of the ag sector. Take away the regulations, and you can think about reducing crop payments. As for conservation and disaster payments, those are separate issues, and are available to all land owners regardless of occupation. I'm sure Ted Turner gets a fair share of conservation payments so he can afford to fence off the Milwaukee corridor through Sixteenmile Canyon. <br /> <br />Of course, if we're going to talk about farm subsidies, we should also point out that BNSF gets one third of those subsidies paid to Montana farmers, so not only are we subsidizing BNSF through the lack of STB oversight regarding it's directive of maintaining rail competition, we are subsidizing BNSF via USDA payments to Montana farmers!
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