I saw the headline and thought, ‘WTF?’
Farm Income Up
Oh really? With so many foreign markets reduced or closed, because of Dotard’s tariffs and so many nations avoiding US products and crops, because of Boss Hogg’s disastrous war and foreign policies driving away our allies and markets?
And then I read WHY farm income is up…
BILLIONS in the form of subsidies and handouts, to keep Republican farmers ‘in the fold’, with tax dollars.
Government payments are up, dramatically.
These have become a major component of net farm income in the past several years. After a period of time in which government payments were relatively small, the combination of commodity program payments and supplemental or ad hoc payments have grown dramatically, as foreign markets have dwindled.
Now it makes sense….
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