Democrats hate it because of the corporate welfare. Republicans hate it because of the SNAP handouts. But the reason it failed to pass in the House of Representatives the other day really had nothing to do with either of them. The Freedom Caucus drove the nail in it because they couldn't get their immigration bill moved forward. Details in Farm bill goes down as Freedom Caucus votes against it.
The free market would ultimately prove to be a better economic system for farming. But farmers have been on the government dole so long and to such an extent -- USDA subsidies in the United States totaled $17.2 billion in 2016 -- the adaptation period would be too long and loud for our representatives to tolerate. So we'll likely have to just learn to live with it.
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