| 420c - 6/1/2026 09:06 I'm as free market guy as you can get, but I don't understand why so many think eliminating all subsidies would be a great thing. We didn't get here overnight. It would be the 80's 2.0. Prices would adjust alright. but probably not the ones you think. Tell your landlord you can only afford to pay 55% of what you were paying when your contract is up. See how that goes for you. small towns and schools would die. Your coop equity would probably vanish. And the guys advocating for this, thinking they will be the last guy standing, will be lucky (or unlucky) enough to be renting it from an investor for little or no margin. I want to see profitability for all segments of agriculture. We should all be working together for that, instead of corn belt against the fringe. Or livestock against the crop guys. No one should want a rapid elimination of ag support, and a repeat of the 80's.
So cut ALL ag subsidies by 10% per year continually until the payments gets so low that its not worth sending the envelopes out to the mailboxes.
7 years from now ag subsidies would be (approximately) cut in half using that method. Gives everyone time to adjust and get their ducks in a row.
Edited to change it from just Ag subsidies to include ALL subsidies. They all need to go.
Edited by Kooiker 6/1/2026 09:13
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