date:Aug 11, 2016
a has a primary duty to help American farmers before foreign ones. Yet, extensive economic studies show that it is wealthy farmers who benefit from subsidies, not poor ones. Rather than aid small farms, subsidies lead to farm consolidation and drive small-scale farms out of business. Subsidies also inflate the value of farmland, thereby artificially raising barriers for entry of young, aspiring farmers. All these issues have been documented by different economists, from institutions ranging from