Sunday, October 7, 2012

Journal Topic 7: Government Farm Subsidies


After watching the video, I feel that the government subsidies are useless, because there are some loopholes. For example, farm subsidies rarely go to poor people, instead the farm subsidies go to those wealthy farmers and large agribusinesses. Moreover, people can even get paid without farming. Some people said that they have no idea why the government is doing that. Moreover, most crops don’t have farm subsidies. I believe that the government isn’t tackling the problem in the right way. In New Zealand, it doesn’t have farm subsidies, and their framers’ productivity increased five-fold. The video wants the viewers to think that farm subsidies are unnecessary and that it doesn’t have the productivity. Therefore, I’m a bit influenced by the video and agree with it.
Instead of farm subsidies, there are also other subsidies such as gasoline, car, and even education. Most colleges and universities have subsidies. I believe that those supports should continue, because education is really important. Well, as for elementary and high school, I believe that their subsidies should be fewer than those of colleges and universities, because students are actually learning and contributing to the societies in college and university years. I also think that people who don’t have school-aged children have to pay taxes to support schools, because education is way too important than anything else. 

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