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Related: About this forumIncluding yourself, Chuckles?
Chuckles helped write a letter to the USDA asking them to limit payments to actual farmers.
U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, co-authored a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue asking him to use his authority to limit payments out of the Farm Bill to those actively engaged in farming.
In the letter, Grassley bemoaned passive investors and mega-farms who use loopholes in the annual farm bill to line their pockets with the federal agriculture safety net money.
The farm safety net in this country was never intended to maximize government payments or cover every bushel of every commodity on every acre, the letter read. The support programs are intended to provide support to working farmers to protect against low prices or yields and to provide enough support that if a farmer has a bad year, that farmer can survive to plant again the next year.
Grassleys letter co-authored by Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, of Nebraska claimed Perdue had the authority, under the Actively Engaged in Farming final rule of 2015, which provided a quantifiable test of a payment recipients participation in farm management.
In the letter, Grassley bemoaned passive investors and mega-farms who use loopholes in the annual farm bill to line their pockets with the federal agriculture safety net money.
The farm safety net in this country was never intended to maximize government payments or cover every bushel of every commodity on every acre, the letter read. The support programs are intended to provide support to working farmers to protect against low prices or yields and to provide enough support that if a farmer has a bad year, that farmer can survive to plant again the next year.
Grassleys letter co-authored by Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, of Nebraska claimed Perdue had the authority, under the Actively Engaged in Farming final rule of 2015, which provided a quantifiable test of a payment recipients participation in farm management.
You plan on not taking any more of this money Chuckles since you're making a bunch off donors and the like?
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Including yourself, Chuckles? (Original Post)
47of74
Jun 2019
OP
Mistakes were made, no point discussing that now. But some us - but fortunately not all of us ...
marble falls
Jun 2019
#4
CurtEastPoint
(19,179 posts)1. I think Pigballs Ernst's family sucks off this tit as well.
TRUE: Various relatives of Joni Ernst reportedly received an aggregate of $460,000 in agricultural subsidies.
rurallib
(63,198 posts)3. Yep true. The Grassley clan had sucked over $1 million last I looked
on the EWG website. Chuck was list at his Virginia address. That was a couple of years ago.
He does come back to mow the lawn, though.
photo from https://www.agriculture.com/news/policy/grassley-lives-his-message-of-thrift_4-ar47246
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)2. Never to forget the massive
Nunes's Dairy and Row Crop near LaMaras. Got to Grift together.
marble falls
(62,052 posts)4. Mistakes were made, no point discussing that now. But some us - but fortunately not all of us ...
will have to make some sacrifice. My heart goes out to you!
sincerely,
Chuckles the Senator.
lark
(24,149 posts)5. Hell no, he's being specifically paid to only send $$ to gazillionaires.
There will never be enough for the family farmers in dumpfworld.
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