Atlasian Agriculture Reinvestment Bill (Law'd)

[Purple State]

Sounds like we want to reduce food. Someone give me the quick pros to cutting off subsidies to farmers so dramatically.

[Purple State]

Sounds like we want to reduce food. Someone give me the quick pros to cutting off subsidies to farmers so dramatically.

     Reduces government spending & allows a fairer playing field for foreign farmers (maybe we should include a provision to help induce other countries to reduce farm subsidies as well). I don't know about you, but those are the reasons I like it.

I get the reason to oppose increased farm subsidies in the future, but simply shutting industries down rapid-fire seems like a bad idea. If you want to reword the bill to phase the cuts over a few years I could support that. This just seems to take a sledgehammer to the ag sector.

[Purple State]

And I propose a friendly amendment to both of those to state "spread evenly."

[Purple State]

Probably have to let Happy accept your amendment and my amendment to that.

[Purple State]

I'd be happy to accept both as friendly.  Mostly I just wanted to start discussion on something dear to my heart with this bill.  I'm more trying to get rid of tobacco subsidies with this bill and stop them from big corporate farms which don't need them.

I agree that we can't continue to throw cash at big tobacco and large corporate farms. I just want to make sure we do this the right way.

[Purple State]

Nay