Billionaires Received U.S. Farm Subsidies, Report Finds.

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9. To be fair, none of these billionaires are doing their taxes.

They hire accountants to find every tax break, loophole, or subsidy that they can qualify for. And at anytime these mega wealthy people or corporations seem to come into a snag where they would have to pay too much tax, they hire a lobbyist and pony up donations to de-regulate and/ or create a loophole, subsidy, or tax break for theirselves. And many times these items are attached as a rider onto a bill that must be passed.

Let's face it, the farm bill with it's many subsidies and tax breaks, etc., were designed originally to stabilize food costs and production for the small family farmer. But over the years, the wealthy and corporate farming has bought out the small family farmer; creating not only a monolithic corporate approach to mass production of our food sources by board members in a suit, but also another example of the wealthy sucking money off the public dime.

If we had representatives that actually represented The People, congress would fashion the farm bill off of a fair model where the small family farmer would get the benefits and subsidies. The big farms and people claiming they are a farm and taking a subsidy to stifle their production for market purposes. And it would also create an easier way for youth to obtain land in order to implement farming for the future with sustainable and humane practices, as well as, having a new generation of farmers who will be able to take over production of our food sources when many of the older generation of family farmers is retiring or being bought out by these factory farms. Then again, members of congress their own selves would have to create legislation that would have they themselves having to pay taxes on their land to NoT Farm.

Money in politics makes our democracy extremely fragile. And The Supremes made it worse with Citizens United case!