What is the Democratic view on farm subsidies?

[phk]

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.

[phk]

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?

Could farmers be kept in business by selling food at a loss?

I'd rather simply retrain a third of our farmers to do something else and conserve the land, or, on the other side, have the government do a better job at buying up surplus food (on the market, to increase prices) and sending it to poor countries.

Then again, since the world has a food surplus anyway, I think the first option makes more sense, economically and ecologically.

It's time to give the Mojave Desert a rest from agriculture.

[phk]

I'd rather retrain them to do something else.

[phk]

Of course they would; if every farmer produced food, we'd have a massive surplus of food that would drive down prices.

[phk]

Of course they would; if every farmer produced food, we'd have a massive surplus of food that would drive down prices.

Resulting in cheap food, not farmers operating at a loss.

Cheap food will cause a loss.