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Originally Posted by Cimarron29414
Farms subsidies? Really? You speak of being taken seriously when your best solution to a $1,400,000,000,000 budget overrun rate is the $20,000,000,000 in farm subsidies. Look at you, only $1,380,000,000,000 left to find!  |
It's hard to convey sarcasm, humor, etc. in text so I'm going to be generous and assume that you were being playful rather than sarcastic (honestly, I really don't know).
A) Of course farm subsidies aren't going to end the deficit. But $20 billion isn't chump change, either.
B) I proposed cutting farm subsidies not because they are such a huge amount of money, but because they make no sense, can be cut with bipartisan support, and are genuinely harmful to the global economy. In short, they are the lowest-hanging fruit.
Why be snide? Farms subsidies cost a lot of money, truly suck, have no benefits, and could garner bipartisan support for elimination. This is yet another reason why I have no tolerance for so many (not all) conservatives; rather than do due diligence on a
realistic plan to cut the deficit, they prefer to just sit back and bemoan big government.