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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (50219)10/8/2002 3:54:07 PM
From: Noel de Leon  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
"Sorry Noel.. I'm sure you would love to COERCE ...." Do you really think that the farming community in the USA is not made up of a few large farming businesses. That's the lobby your talking about.
You haven't a clue as to what I would do.
I wrote in #50016 "Take 10% of the military budgets of the world and 10% of the US and European farm supports and you can increase the aid to underdeveloped countries many times. Properly used these monies could easily(in our life time) solve their poverty problems in ways which would make them self-supporting(also in the USA). This would put a damper on many problems, unfortunately religious fundamentalism would only be reduced, not eliminated by such a course of action."

Do a tax calculation for the whole US tax paying population and you can see that the 7-10% of the population that benefits from the farm supports(mostly big business farming) would have their profits cut by less than 1% and that the taxed population will get a tax increase of less than 0.1%

"And both directly stem from the fact that both the US and Europe are democracies and their farmers and factory workers vote,...."

That's mostly French farmers and that's because they are inefficient. The Danish farming industry has no problem with the removal of supports.
The EU doesn't function as a democracy in this case since the minority(farmers) decide on the question of supports and one veto(France) is enough to force the continuation of supports. It's not as simple as that but it is not democratic.

As for your comment on cheap labor etc. that's a cheap shot since these 3rd world farmers are usually small family businesses somewhat like the farming community in the USA 2-3 generations ago.
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