Are the farms collectively owned? If not, why are they collectively subsidized?
I’m fine with Corporate mega farms getting taxed. And I’m in favour of all of us paying taxes “fairly”.
Probably the little people will wait get fucked
Good. Farmers need to be taxed and regulated like all other industries. Unchecked water usage has led to the most inefficient water methods and they don’t pay household rates for water. Little oversight in how pesticides are used so the farmer pays for a helicopter to swoop and spray the area, regardless of the need for pesticides on the entire field with down wind effects for anyone living in the path of the aerosol poisons.
Farmers need to change with the times and start farming like they have satellite pictures and basic math available to them.
I don’t know what it’s like over in Canada, but here in Australia it seems like the two biggest problems farmers face are the increasingly extreme climate and the vicehold the supermarket duopoly has over the market, giving them both monopoly and monopsony power, allowing them to completely screw over farmers.
We have two main parties, one which has consistently been more in favour of action on climate change than the other, and which is also the less friendly one to corporate interests. We also have a third somewhat-major party that has extremely strong policies on climate change and monopolies. Guess which of these three parties farmers have consistently overwhelmingly voted for over the past 30+ years?
So nah, fuck 'em. They’ve brought it on themselves. I’ve no interest in taxpayers subsidising them.
But maybe circumstances in Canada are different.
Yeah, that pretty much sounds like the exact same thing here.
Exactly the same in NZ too.
Tax breaks for the farmers working the fields, or tax breaks for the international corporations and land speculators that own nearly all the fields?
Farming subsidies have little to do with the food a nation needs, and everything to do with elections. Countries where farmer’s votes don’t swing elections, don’t have farming subsidies
CGP Gray’s rules for rulers still sticks with me.
I forgot where that was from. Thanks!
Toddler wants what he wants reality be damned.
Lemmy.
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