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(56,582 posts) Tue Aug 2, 2016, 01:47 PM Aug 2016

Best farm subsidy idea I've ever heard [View all]

A friend of mine who's a pastor in Texas just mentioned this. Replace (some) farm subsidies with direct payments to farm workers.

Farm workers in general do not receive the minimum wage, let alone a living wage. Let's change that. The USDA will pay your workers for you, $15 / hour.

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Best farm subsidy idea I've ever heard [View all] Recursion Aug 2016 OP

The farmers in Iowa will not like that liberal N proud Aug 2016 #1

I wonder how many farm susidy recipients... orwell Aug 2016 #2

All of them liberal N proud Aug 2016 #11

Very interesting... thanks. hunter Aug 2016 #3

"I think all dangerous, dirty, body-damaging, mind-numbing jobs ought to be automated." Brickbat Aug 2016 #4

You've never had a good job? hunter Aug 2016 #5

What would those jobs look like? Brickbat Aug 2016 #6

That's not a question I can answer for anyone else. hunter Aug 2016 #7

Many people find fulfillment in work that others consider dangersous, damaging to the Brickbat Aug 2016 #10

Subsidizing healthy food PatSeg Aug 2016 #8

USDA used to pay some "farmers" to NOT grow crops csziggy Aug 2016 #9

Yes, they still do. Dash Riprock Aug 2016 #12