Farms, please. That's a narrow, romantic load from both sides of the fence and only serves to cluster people in feeble arguments over unimportant details. Anachronistic, our heritage, conglomerates, subsidies, ad nauseum.
The truth is any individual's business with a paper value over the threshhold is subject to the knife. Doesn't matter if it's sustainable as a profitable business after being gutted. Doesn't matter if operations are dependent on family (discount) labor which can't be supported after losing 60% of its potential. Only the paper value matters.
Wake up. Because spending is out of control for whatever reason doesn't make it right. Because special interests want funding doesn't mean it's right to decimate these businesses. Taxes out of line are out of line. If you're saying it's okay to sacrifice the few who created paper wealth but weren't savvy enough to play the system, then say so and realize you're just as guilty as the other players. Also realize you aren't nailing the people you wish you were.
It's oft-repeated throughout history. Status quo has little to do with justice, but it does pave a smooth road to sticking the other guy.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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