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But they act like they are poor. We hike down at the river every morning with our dog's and in the way pass a lot of farms. They have RVs, boats, brand new quads or side-by-sides. But they will be the first to tell you how poor they are.
some years are better than others. on the good years, you can afford to buy things. when a few bad years hit, you can make nothing and end up paying what the average person makes in a year just to keep the farm running. could you afford to pay your job $50k a year just in the hope that next year it pays you something? could you do that for a couple years straight?
growing food is not very profitable, which is why subsidies exist in the first place. and since you depend on farmers to keep growing food instead of doing what's in their own self interest and growing cash crops, just so you don't starve to death , you better hope the government keeps farmers in business.
I’m generally against nationalization. Farming should 100% be nationalized.