{"id":44,"date":"2013-08-23T11:15:33","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T15:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/terrelltd\/?p=44"},"modified":"2013-09-03T08:20:22","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T12:20:22","slug":"farm-subsidies-as-welfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/terrelltd\/2013\/08\/23\/farm-subsidies-as-welfare\/","title":{"rendered":"Farm Subsidies As Welfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Farmer poor-mouthing to get subsidies, vs. reality: &#8220;Farm subsidies redistribute wealth from taxpayers to often well-off farm businesses and landowners. Farm income stabilization payments have recently fluctuated between about $13 billion and $33 billion annually.  This is a welfare hand-out like food stamps, yet it goes to higher-income households. In 2010, the average income of farm households was $84,400, or 25 percent above the $67,530 average of all U.S. households. Moreover, the great bulk of farm subsidies go to the largest farms.&#8221; From Chris Edwards and Tad DeHaven, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/publications\/congressional-testimony\/corporate-welfare-spending-vs-entrepreneurial-economy\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Corporate Welfare Spending vs. the Entrepreneurial Economy,&#8221;<\/a> on cato.org.<\/p>\n<p>Also see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpolicycouncil.org\/research\/budget\/farm-subsidies\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>, from the South Carolina Policy Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farmer poor-mouthing to get subsidies, vs. reality: &#8220;Farm subsidies redistribute wealth from taxpayers to often well-off farm businesses and landowners. Farm income stabilization payments have recently fluctuated between about $13 billion and $33 billion annually. This is a welfare hand-out like food stamps, yet it goes to higher-income households. In 2010, the average income of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/terrelltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/terrelltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/terrelltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/terrelltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/terrelltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/terrelltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/terrelltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/terrelltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/terrelltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}