Comments about ‘In our opinion: Farm bill fiasco’

Well maybe it's time all those rural republican farmers and dairy owners got off the dole and ran a legitimate business without the government pumping it up with tax dollars.

How does that little chestnut of cognitive dissonance go down with water?

Welfare queens don't drive Cadillacs Reagan lovers, they drive big trucks.

You said it Screwdriver. The biggest tea party fanatics I know are some farmers in my family.....who get thousands and thousands of dollars of corporate welfare from the government. Well, I guess if welfare goes to them, that's great. They are the "good" people. Not like those worthless inner city people. (By the way, these farmers get their corporate welfare for doing nothing. Literally. For not planting crops. But heaven forbid if a mother working for minimum wage gets some food stamps.)

If the price of milk is $8 per gallon, it doesn't matter whether the government subsidizes part of that cost to keep the price at the cash register down. The milk still costs $8 per gallon either way.

The difference is in who pays the $8. Without the government subsidy, the entire $8 would be paid for by those who are actually drinking the milk. With the government subsidy, part of the cost is being paid by taxpayers, both those who drink milk and those who do not. The government subsidy forces part of the cost onto those who don't drink milk.

There is a cost for everything. If the cost of milk is $8 per gallon, then the price of milk should be $8 per gallon. Obama may think that milk should only cost $2.50 a gallon, but what does he know about the cost of producing a gallon of milk?

Let the free market work. Let the price reflect the true cost of production. Let the buyer decide if they want to pay that price.

Government does not change economics, they only "blur" reality.

Watch goat dairies take off, if the cow dairy subsidies go away ---

merich39
Salt Lake City, UT

Do not disagree with what you are saying.
Its a matter of supply and demand.
I do not believe however that milk would be $8 a gallon. No one will buy milk at $8 a gallon. no one will pay four time what they are paying now for ice cream and cheese.
Dairy farmers would have to sell milk for no more then $3 a gallon or go out of business.
There are other sources.

r.e. Oldergreg,

We got a couple of goats a few years ago and love the milk and love the goats. Our lot is about 1/4 acre and we still have plenty of room for lawn, garden, etc. because the goats don't take up a lot of space. We have our milk tested three times a year and it is cleaner than the store-bought cow's milk. Goats' milk is more digestible and better for you than cow's milk. And, if we go out of town, several of our neighbors are more than happy to milk the goats for us in trade for the milk. We won't have to gag down powdered milk if we ever have to depend on our 1-year food supply. I think we will see a lot more back-yard goats in the future. They are clean, quiet and fun.

There are other sources of calcium. What other nutrient does dairy offer that you cannot get from other sources?
Soy milk is an option
Goat milk is an option.
Or we just live without cow milk altogether.
$8 a gallon for milk; in my opinion was a lie; so that the dairy farmers could keep getting their handout.
And our government should not have fallen for the extortion.
But hey, it is not their money they are giving away.

Subsides should also be discontinued for ethanol, corn, sugar, wool, probably missed a few.
Why do some crops/products get subsidized and others do not?
The welfare queen farmers who get the subsidies have the money to donate to politicians so that the subsidies continue.
My guess is for every dollar they give a politician; they are getting back $5-10 in government handouts/subsidies.
Not a bad deal for welfare queen farmers

The first rule of farming should be: make money. As a business, without subsidies. If the current model of primary production doesn't work, the system needs re work.