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Heavily subsidized rural roads and utilities, tax incentives, all sorts of price subsidies depending on the crop. Police (which act primarily in the interests of capital), fire fighters, food safety inspectors to give people the confidence to buy agricultural products, social safety nets for the workers that farms pay as little as legally (or illegally) possible...




We desperately need to get RID of USDA inspectors so we can break the regulatory capture the big four meat processors have on meat sales. I live in WA state and have to pay $17 / hr minimum wage. You are regurgitating a lot of misinformation common on Reddit, have you ever run a farm or another business yourself? Please try starting a farm or business and your opinions will change rapidly as you see how things actually are.

Farm subsidies aren't opinions to be changed, they're hard facts. I live in the part of WA state that subsidizes all the red agricultural areas that love to talk about how much they hate us, I understand how the money flows.




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