Townsend, Montana | jd8850 - 12/22/2025 09:23
Not sure how the dealers are the beneficaries??
Last I checked the funds come in the form of a check with your name on. And maybe your bank too?
So... if you farm, and you owe money to the bank, buy fertilizer, buy seed, buy fuel, pay rent, buy equipment, and you USE that money to pay those folks, is that not helping your bottom line? Or do you just pull money out of the sky to pay those people?
And if you have enuff in savings to pay those folks, how do they get YOUR money, unless you give it to them.
And spare me the cornball theories that all those groups are in a conspiracy to force the govt to give us the money so we can give it to them.
Oh yes, and drive up the rent and land prices. By $30/acre.
I'm not blaming anyone, just calling it like I see it. If the government gives us money, we will likely spend it on things we otherwise wouldn't have - rent, machinery, maybe a little extra fert or fungicide, etc. Yes, it seems to help our bottom line short term. But it increases (falsely) the demand for those goods and services. The resulting inflation takes a year or two to get worked back out of the system. Or it never does because the government just cuts another check to "help" us deal with the inflation that they created. |
Big gov't payment helps who?
