What is the Democratic view on farm subsidies?

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Why should we pay farmers to grow nothing? That's never made much sense to me whatsoever.

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Why should we pay farmers to grow nothing? That's never made much sense to me whatsoever.

To stabilize the price on the market dumbass.

But I'd rather have them retrained to do something else.

Do you have a problem with cheap food?

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Wasn't Scorpiogurl the TexasIndy of 2005? Couldn't handle the pressure of political discussion, created a thread about that and deleted herself?

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It seems to me that the reason we need farm subsidies is to keep America's foodsupply domestic. Without price supports, we'd be importing the majority of our food, which could be catastrophic in a war or other emergency.

We already import a TON of food and vegetables from Mexico and Canada. When it comes to food, their is only so much you can actually import that won't spoil by the time it reaches the buyers -> warehouse -> store.