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Driller · 08-04-2006, 07:38

I know this may upset some people (oops!) but why do we subsides farmers? During the foot and mouth crisis the farmers were paid massive amounts of compensation by the tax payers, why? If you are in business and your stock is lost you need to be insured up to the hilt (if not you could even face a prison sentence) not so the farmers. I do not see any difference between a farmer that receives thousands every year in subsidies and pays little or no tax, and someone getting benefits from the DHSS.. But people receiving benefits from social security are branded as scroungers! So what are the vast majority of farmers?

08-04-2006, 07:38	#1
Driller Full Member Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 103 Liked: 0 times Rep Power: 0	its a rip off I know this may upset some people (oops!) but why do we subsides farmers? During the foot and mouth crisis the farmers were paid massive amounts of compensation by the tax payers, why? If you are in business and your stock is lost you need to be insured up to the hilt (if not you could even face a prison sentence) not so the farmers. I do not see any difference between a farmer that receives thousands every year in subsidies and pays little or no tax, and someone getting benefits from the DHSS.. But people receiving benefits from social security are branded as scroungers! So what are the vast majority of farmers?