Farm Subsidies Abolition Bill

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then rewrite the law to make it so that only family farms can get the aid

How would you suggest that such an idea be worded?  What is the requirement or the definition for being a "family" farm(er)?

I might be willing to work with you here.

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In the interests of honesty and full disclosure, this is the PM I sent to Senator Al, regarding the subject.

Honestly, the strident back-and-forth in these subsequent pages became very tiresome to me, so I skipped ahead.  So could you please tell me: what exactly is it that you want, Mr. Secretary?

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In the interests of honesty and full disclosure, this is the PM I sent to Senator Al, regarding the subject.

Honestly, the strident back-and-forth in these subsequent pages became very tiresome to me, so I skipped ahead.  So could you please tell me: what exactly is it that you want, Mr. Secretary?

It is pretty well summed up in those pages.  I want to eliminate funding that goes to "mega-farms" while preserving the funding that goes to small family farms.  In so doing, we could cut about 75% (at least) of the ttal funding.

I think we can also take a small portion of the money and use it to educate Third World farmers in better farming techniques and, in so doing, we could eliminate thier dependencey on us and help out their economies.

I see no reason why I shouldn't support this.

Propose something along these lines and I'll introduce an amendment, or Senator Al can if he wishes to.

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Do you have the votes to pass an outright repeal, or do you have to go with "compromise" nonsense?

I don't know that it would necessarily be a compromise.  Some believe that eliminating corporate subsidies but keeping some basic support for individual and family farms might actually be the best way to go.

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Any comments?

Yes: How would the "Third World Agricultural Independency Agency" help Atlasia?

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Nay

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As a testament to my UNREASONABLENESS:

I change my vote to Aye.

This is due to my careful reconsidering of the issues at hand (it was specifically the foreign aid portion that concerned me) and is not the product of these attempts at guilting the several Senators.

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Aye