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Re: its a rip off
We want our food as cheap as possible leading to imports as they are cheaper. The subsidies paid to farmers in my opinion is no different than a low paid worker male or female getting say working tax credit reduced council rents and council tax reductions. over the years the money made from farming has dwindled as the prices have dropped to which we as consumers and with a little help from supermarkets have encouraged. A lot of wealthy people pay very little in tax because they work the system and its loopholes and farmers are right to try the same.
As for social security scroungers the is a minority that have never done a days work in their lives and we are the ones that do the subsidising yet the majority are not there by choice but due to circumstance. A comment was made a couple of weeks back by someone I know that throws things into perspective " Why work for the minimum wage when all my benifits means that I can sit at home and have the govenment pay me the equivilent of £10 an hour for doing sweet F A." Now this I would class as a rip off not some Farmer Giles working the system but actually producing something in the process. His predicament is Brussels induced in most cases.
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