Farm welfare

The farm bill is $100 billion expense to the taxpayers. About $80 billion of this goes to food stamps and school lunch programs. About $4 billion goes to farmers in the commodities market and 75% of this goes to 10% of farms. The bulk of this money goes to corporate farms in the agribusiness, companies like Cargill, Tyson Foods and Archer Daniels Midland. These are direct cash payments which is a form of corporate welfare. When some congressman suggest cutting this 3 billion that goes to corporate farms, a cry goes out that they are cutting food stamps. It must be too complicated to separate the money going to farms and that which goes to food stamps.