Fact: The Farm-Subsidy System Primarily Helps Large Agricultural Producers. The farm-subsidy system provides limited assistance to small family farms. In 2016, small family farms accounted for 89.9 percent of all farms, yet received 27 percent of commodity payments and 17 percent of crop insurance indemnities.7
7 U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, “America’s Diverse Family Farms: 2017 Edition.”
In contrast, commercial farms,8
8 “Commercial farms” refers to the largest family farms (midsize, large, and very large family farms) and non-family farms (these farms only account for 1.2 percent of all farms). See U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, “America’s Diverse Family Farms: 2017 Edition.”
which include the largest family farms, accounted for just 10.1 percent of all farms, yet received 73 percent of commodity payments and 83 percent of crop insurance indemnities.9
9 U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, “America’s Diverse Family Farms: 2017 Edition.”
Large-scale farms (large and very large family farms) accounted for just 2.9 percent of all farms, yet received over a third of the commodity payments (35 percent) and almost half of the crop insurance indemnities (46 percent).10
Interesting that the OPer chose this particular rhetorical tool of equivalence.
Usually when employing such the equivalence rhetorical tool a poster is doing one of two things…mounting a defense of the original group (i.e. white supremacist philsophy).
Or else employing the equivalence argument the way Jesus did…the old “take the beam out of your eye before you point out the speck in my eye”. However this implies that white supremacist philsophy is the “speck” in the conservative eye, implying the OPer believes white supremacists are “right wingers’ problem”.
Such a dilemma. Surely the OPer didn’t mean to bash liberals as a way to defend white supremacists, and surely the OPer wasn’t agreeing that white supremacists are a right wing problem and liberals should mind their own house first.
Neither is what the OPer meant by making this thread, right?
