Agricultural Subsidy Quotes

Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can't compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Reagan's free market enthusiasms.

One of the many economic differences between developed and developing countries is that developed countries subsidize farmers while developing countries tax farmers.

The farm subsidy program is something that was put into place over 60 years ago, and it was put into place to do one thing, and it's turned into something else.

The Government in the US has become responsible for farmers’ income, leaving the big (transnational) buyers in the market free to exploit their oligopolistic position

If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.

The American government policy on what we supported and subsidised in agriculture was a social experiment on a whole generation of children.

Did somebody dream there is some way that the government doesn’t need us? What in the hell would they do with the farm program without us?

Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I entirely disclaim it; but I ask you to protect the rights and interests of labour generally in the first place, by allowing no free imports from countries which meet you with countervailing duties; and, in the second place, with respect to agricultural produce, to compensate the soil for the burdens from which other classes are free by an equivalent duty. This is my view of what is called "protection."

In case you didn't know, ethanol is made by mixing corn with your tax dollars.

African pressure has led the E.U. to rethink part of its agricultural subsidy programme.

The government is now in a position to do what Franklin D. Roosevelt did during the Great Depression of the 1930s - use a crisis of the times to create new institutions that will last for generations. To this day, we are still subsidizing millionaires in agriculture because farmers were having a tough time in the 1930s.

The only way to keep food prices down is to keep them [farmers] down on the farm after they've seen the parity.

Do we need farm program reform? Absolutely.

It is time for Congress to provide relief for tobacco farmers. Since the 1930's tobacco production has been regulated by a quota system, which required farmers to purchase quota in order to grow tobacco.