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[Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>]

clanSkeen wrote:

> Living in the middle of tobacco country, I can tell you that the tobacco
> buyouts is one of the biggest handouts based on fakery that the 'buy-a-vote"
> crowd ever came up with.   A great lot the money goes to people who have
> bought up chunks of old dairy and cattle farms which had a tobacco
> allotment - who have never grown tobacco in their lives and never intend to.
> A typical pattern is to buy up some rural land, collect the tobacco
> settlement, then subdivide it and build McMansions on it, which they would
> have done with or without a settlement.
>
> Why in the name of all things reasonable and unreasonable should we (through
> taxes) be paying tobacco growers because their market has disappeared any
> more than we'd pay tomato growers or asparagus growers??   By the bye, many
> of those growers around here who no longer wanted to play the tobacco game
> began to grow tomatoes and asparagus (and peppers and cabbage) and while
> they don't make as much money doing so as they did with artificially priced
> tobacco, they often make more profit.
>
> James
>
>  
tvoivozhd---one set of thieves helping another---sotto voce by Senators 
over lunch---you vote for my non-real-tobacco-farmer subsidy, and I will 
vote for your Archer Daniels Midland ethanol subsidy---neither makes 
economic sense.

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