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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (17626)	4/26/2000 6:24:00 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 769667

<<Similar stories can be found for rice and sugar production in this country ... >> Sugar has a sweet heart deal making imports way higher than domestic production due to taxes. Sugar producers have screwed up a lot of the ecology in Florida. Rice has a sweet deal also but I'm not as familiar with it. Peanuts are another thing almost as bad as tobacco. Both have to be registered as a farm raising those crops to be able to sell them. I talked to a waitress in Kentucky who owned 5 acres. Her ground was worth $5,000 per acre and the 5 acres next door was valued at $300 per acre. The difference was her acreage was listed as a tobacco farm. She was given free tobacco plants every year by the government and paid to plow them under. Now the biggest sector of the farm program, the one sucking the most money.... welfare. Food stamps take better than 1/3 of the farm program's budget.