What is a farmer?
2 posters
Page 1 of 1
What is a farmer?
Changes might be coming to how farm subsidies are distributed. It will be interesting watching some of these folks, who are champions of small government, complain when their subsidies are taken away.
Wealthy executives, celebrities and others get subsidies even if they never set foot on a farm or don’t need the taxpayer-funded assistance. They include the likes of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, according to an Environmental Working Group report.
USDA will soon issue its proposed rule for qualifying who is “actively engaged” in farming, making them eligible for some of the billions paid each year to farm families across the U.S. to support them in tough times when crop prices or farm revenues are low, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told POLITICO in an exclusive interview this week. “The reality is that this has been a loophole that has been utilized by folks in [business] partnerships to allow for many, many, many people to qualify as actively engaged [in farming] when in fact they might only be engaged in a conference call or in a very narrow sense participating in decision-making in a farming operation,” Vilsack said. “We will close that loophole to the extent that we can.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/usda-city-farm-subsidies-114955.html#ixzz3QyouIJQR
Turtleneck- Geronte
- Posts : 42483
Join date : 2014-04-22
Re: What is a farmer?
Dang... could I have gotten some moola for my poppy garden?
xsanguine- Geronte
- Posts : 9838
Join date : 2014-04-23
Location : Hijackin' Threads
Similar topics
» Farmer's Almanac for winter 2021
» Dennis Nunes, the California dairy farmer who isn't since his family sold and moved to Iowa
» Dennis Nunes, the California dairy farmer who isn't since his family sold and moved to Iowa
Page 1 of 1
Permissions in this forum:
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
|
|