Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

That subsidy comes out of my pocket, and  yours. All subsidies are welfare.


Here's an idea: make all subsidy payments voluntary for taxpayers!

Actually I'd rather see you keep 99% of the tax you get socked for. I think
you'd spend it far better than the jerks in Foggy Bottom.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 4/29/2007 at 8:46 AM R. Follette wrote:

>>>Kill ALL existing subsidies, NOW!
>
>That won't happen, but let's suppose it could.  What about the subsidies 
>that go to organic farmers who use them to get up and running sustainably 
>years sooner than they would have without the subsidy?  I don't think all 
>subsidies are bad.
>
>
>Robin
>Thyme For Ewe Farm
>www.thymeforewe.com
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: <activism98201@verizon.net>
>To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" 
><livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 11:31 PM
>Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] happenings to get fired up about growing
>
>
>Unfortunately increased gasoline prices are likely going to result in the 
>LOSS of farmland with respect to it producing food :-(
>
>Small farmers will shift over to ethanol/biofuel crops only to ultimately
>be 
>bought up by the big agri-fuel businesses.  Result?  Loss of food crops 
>(which would take years to reestablish in the wake of fuel crop
>production) 
>and the loss of local control of "farmland" (now in the hands of absentee 
>owners.
>
>We've got to stress the need to reject the consumption of food that's 
>shipped from far away (which is heavily subsidized).  Only then will the 
>value of local food achieve levels necessary to maintain farmland for food

>production rather than fuel production.
>
>Kill ALL existing subsidies, NOW!
>
>
>-Mark Nagel
>Everett, WA 
>
>
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