Repeal the 22nd Amendment and the 17th, too.

[martybegan]

Do you have an ETA?

Do you have an actual point to make?

 

[postman]

Nice of the government to want to keep its citizens fed economically.

Yet you'll bitch to high heaven when the government does the same thing for other products or services.

 

[martybegan]

Yet you'll bitch to high heaven when the government does the same thing for other products or services.

Which ones?

The agricultural grants and programs often work, they keep food affordable.

The issue isn't what grants, it's how they work. Like all the money being wasted on "renewables"

 

[rightwinger]

Nice of the government to want to keep its citizens fed economically.

Of course some of those economics are impacted by the layers of regulations created by said government.

Are you advocating a Nanny State?
Most of our farming is now at the corporate level.
Why subsidize billion dollar corporations ?

 

[martybegan]

Are you advocating a Nanny State?
Most of our farming is now at the corporate level.
Why subsidize billion dollar corporations ?

Keeping food economical is not the "Nanny State"

Banning large sodas, banning plastic bags, and banning new ICE vehicle sales is nanny statism.

 

[rightwinger]

Keeping food economical is not the "Nanny State"

Banning large sodas, banning plastic bags, and banning new ICE vehicle sales is nanny statism.

Does a food related corporation pass those subsidies on to the consumer or just keep the extra profit?

 

[martybegan]

Does a food related corporation pass those subsidies on to the consumer or just keep the extra profit?

there is no such thing as "extra profit"

there is profit. And if you have a pension or 401k you better hope those companies make profits.

That's where dividends come from.

 

[22lcidw]

Urban areas get food from all over the country and all over the world.
Urban areas have always supported rural areas with roads, electricity, schools, hospitals that they can’t justify because of their populations

In the 19th century we were a rural dominated nation. Center city cores and Industrialization helped to change that.

 

[rightwinger]

there is no such thing as "extra profit"

there is profit. And if you have a pension or 401k you better hope those companies make profits.

That's where dividends come from.

Extra profit is profit they wouldn’t see without subsidies

 

[martybegan]

Extra profit is profit they wouldn’t see without subsidies

No, it isn't. There is no definition for "Extra Profit"

 

[rightwinger]

No, it isn't. There is no definition for "Extra Profit"

Maybe in your bizarre world

 

[martybegan]

Maybe in your bizarre world

In reality.

Making money for leftists seems to be evil, unless they are the ones making it.

 

[rightwinger]

In reality.

Making money for leftists seems to be evil, unless they are the ones making it.

No problem making money
Just taxpayers subsidizing billion dollar corporations

 

[martybegan]

No problem making money
Just taxpayers subsidizing billion dollar corporations

Better than subsidizing trillions in government employees.

 

[HikerGuy83]

Does a food related corporation pass those subsidies on to the consumer or just keep the extra profit?

Keep them.

And distribute them back to the shareholders that paid them in taxes to start with.

 

[rightwinger]

Keep them.

And distribute them back to the shareholders that paid them in taxes to start with.

OK

So it looks like we are subsidizing shareholders investments not lowering food prices

 

[postman]

Which ones?

The agricultural grants and programs often work, they keep food affordable.

The issue isn't what grants, it's how they work. Like all the money being wasted on "renewables"

So you position is:
Government subsidizes cheap food. - GOOD
Government subsidizes cheap renewable energy - BAD

Where are you on government subsidizing drugs?

 

[martybegan]

So you position is:
Government subsidizes cheap food. - GOOD
Government subsidizes cheap renewable energy - BAD

The food ones work. The energy ones are failing left and right, and are pushing tech that isn't ready to handle base loads.

 

[BackAgain]

Extra profit is profit they wouldn’t see without subsidies

How long ago did you make that one up before posting it?

 

[postman]

there is no such thing as "extra profit"

there is profit. And if you have a pension or 401k you better hope those companies make profits.

That's where dividends come from.

Actually there is "excess" profit. A measure used when there isn't enough competition to trigger supply and demand.

Example:

Drug company raised price of lifesaving opioid overdose antidote more than 600 percent

As the nation struggled with rising opioid deaths, a drug company increased the price of an overdose antidote more than 600 percent, a Senate subcommittee says.

www.usatoday.com

Drug company raised price of lifesaving opioid overdose antidote more than 600 percent

Richmond, Virginia-based Kaleo increased the price of its auto-injectable overdose-reversal drug EVZIO from $575 to $4,100,