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How Farm Subsidies Harm Taxpayers, Consumers, and Farmers, Too

Trump's tariffs enable him to increase the subsidization level of large American farmers even more.
His way of introducing more socialism into the system. It all makes sense to Trump supporters.

June 20, 2007 22 min read Download Report

Brian Riedl
Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute

Summary
If Congress takes the path of least resistance and extends current farm policies for another five years, it will have surrendered an enormous opportunity for reform. Most debates over federal programs force lawmakers to balance a program's social benefits with the costs of financing it, but current U.S. farm policies serve no legitimate purpose. They burden American families with higher taxes and higher food prices. They harm small farmers by excluding them from subsidies, raising land prices, and financing farm consolidation. They increase trade barriers that reduce incomes in America and in lesser-developed countries. They are falsely promoted as saving the family farm and protecting the food supply. In reality, they are America's largest corporate welfare program.

https://www.heritage.org/agriculture/report/how-farm-subsidies-harm-taxpayers-consumers-and-farmers-too

Even Heritage understands that.