The US ag industry. it is welll documented the benefits.
Yet you fail to provide that documentation,
@banddagIf there was a bumper crop year in say corn due to weather more planting etc, the price per bushel of corn plummets due to oversupply. The next year no one plants corn because it is too low per bushel to make a profit whcih would then lead to a shortage because farmers would plant something else.
And why is this a problem? Why does this make subsidies necessary? Americans get more utility for each dollar spent. And somehow you consider that bad?
Subsidies in ag keeps food prices stable.
Subsidies in agriculture keep food prices artificially high. Consumers must then may more for food than they would otherwise, leaving less money to purchase other goods. In other words, government has chosen to reward agricultural ventures at the expense of other industries and services. Farmers who don't farm come out on top. Consumers and other industries suffer. Doesn't sound "necessary" to me. Unless you are some rich Hollywood liberal who bought up a bunch of farmland somewhere and then uses one of your Ag Dept buddies to secure you checks from the US Treasury for doing absolutely nothing.
w/o susidies one year milk would be 1.99 gallon and the next year 7.00 gallon.
With subsidies, we get $5/gal milk every year. In other words, the consumer pays more. They get less utility for every dollar spent than they would without subsidies.
You would have wild swings in prices on a continual basis and food shortages.
We already have that with subsidies. Have you been grocery shopping lately?
When corn per bushel is super low and farmers cannot make a profit the got pays them a subsidy to make up the difference.
First off, you just contradicted yourself. Your case for subsidies is that it keeps prices stable, so there won't be a super low price for corn. Now you are arguing that farmers should be paid if they produce a glut of corn driving the price down. Your absolute ignorance of human nature is on display again. If the government did this, they would overproduce corn every year knowing that government would make up the difference. Clearly you do not understand how agriculture subsidies work. This is the pitfall of making things up as you go. And it is equally clear that you know nothing about economics.
Weather is another factor. Some years we have very poor crop yields due to droughts/too much rain. Many farmers would go under if not subsidized.
Farm subsidies pay farmers not to grow food. Bad weather only affects those that do grow food. Subsidies do nothing to help them. Nothing. Nor does it do anything about the weather. And in the end, the consumer still pays more either way. More during good weather. More during bad weather.
Our food supply is too important to give you control over in your unicorn world.
Yet you advocate paying farmers
not to grow food. How's that affecting our food supply?
BTW we are subsidizing Israel every year to the tune of billions of dollars. Why is that subsidy necessary?
@Hoodat
It's not a subsidy. It is foreign aid. Big difference. But if you have a problem with that Democrat policy, take it up with Jimmy Carter before he dies.
