So, Before The Farmers Get Their Trump Bailout

[Ms. Toad]

51. Educate yourself, before throwing sticks

And making assertions about what any population goes through to get government assistance.

Are you aware that in response an effort under Biden to encourage investment in multi-year green farming changes, farmers made multiple-year personal loan own commitments - commitments no family farmer would have been able to make on their own - and that Trump has now terminated those subsidies? Farmers are still in the hook for repayment of those loans, even though they were taken out to make changes to benefit society - not the individual farmer.

Historically, many farm subsidies are made to benefit society. To make ends meet, farmers typically have to use every inch of their land. This results in tearing down windbreaks (put up during the dust bowl to minimize the damage done by windstorms), because the profit margin is so low farmers cannot afford to have non-productive land. So while it may feel like payment to do nothing - it is a payment to allow farmers to farm in a way which preserves the land.