Posted by JD Seller on February 06, 2015 at 21:42:12 from (208.126.198.123):
Those that think those that own farm land will be prevented from getting farm payments should know that it will not ever happen. Even if those owners have "City" addresses. There are several reasons this will be the case.
1) It is real hard to separate farmers into groups easily. Those sites like EWG's are pretty vague on the truth of their numbers. They include all money that is dispersed to an individual from the USDA. The trouble is that a lot of that is actually crop loans. Meaning that the money was paid back. So with the high crop prices we have had in the last several years it does not take that many bushels/acres to add up to some pretty large numbers. So just looking at these site really does not tell you much.
2) What does the term active farmer really mean??? IF I paid for my ground and it is farmable then who gets to be "GOD" an decides who is a framer or who is not???
3) How many of you on here have relatives/friends that rent you their ground??? I would bet a quite a few. So if they happen to live in some other place then they should not be able to benefit from programs that are tied to "THEIR" land"??
4) People that have the money to own land can easily afford to change what they need to an still get the value of the payments. This could be that they hire their farm custom farmed. It could also easily be that they just add the value of the payments to cash rent. So the "TRUE" farmer gets the check from the Federal government and then they pay the land owner cash rent that includes the value of the payments..
The farm payments of the 1980s raised the cash rents in this area $50 an acre this way.
I am really not concerned about the so called "rich" getting these payments. They have had to invest their MONEY in farm ground to get those payments.
The ones that upset me are the ones that are receiving FREE stuff for doing nothing when they really do not need it. You can have pretty good incomes and still e eligible for Food stamps and free school lunch these days. My son showed me the form that the school sent home on the free lunch program. A family with two kids can make up to around $40,000 and still get free lunches. That is not "POOR". The food stamp program is even worse. These two programs cost way more money than the payments to "rich city" people.
The higher earning people PAY the majority of taxes that are paid and yet many think that they still do not pay enough because they have earned more than the average person does. This country needs all of the high earning people we can get!!!! The non working, hand out receiving, people will never generate enough of anything to keep the country going.
I have to PAY more in taxes now than I made for over half my life. The system is flawed and many think it needs to be tipped even more. IF there is no incentive to earn more here than people will either quit trying or move elsewhere.
So look at what your condemning because it could easily be you next if you produce anything positive to the economy. I have never seen a government in the world that is good at picking the winners and losers in society. It usually just makes more losers.
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