anamosaje.com — After first asking Deb and Jerry VonSprecken to host a fund-raiser at their farm, the Giuliani campaign called back asking about their assets. "I'm sorry, you aren't worth a million dollars and he is campaigning on the Death Tax right now," the campaign told them and then canceled the event.
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lggeekMay 11, 2007
@JigoroKano, it takes in a lot more than family farms, houses in Silicon Valley cost over a million for a 40 year old 2000 sq ft ranch house.it hits a lot more people than just the wealthy.
prockcoreMay 11, 2007
If you have a 2 million dollar house.. you're wealthy.
critch74997May 11, 2007
Neither one of those
puffycMay 11, 2007
RE: "A country should never lose the ability to feed itself"For security reasons, a country should also never lose the ability to manufacture on it's own. Nobody really cares about that though. I always wondered how farmers got special treatment (real question).
one2gambleMay 11, 2007
your food would not be cheaper without government subsidies, honestly it would probably cost more and fluctuate more.
qthewsMay 11, 2007
I suppose people would not like Ben Franklin's idea, no legal inheritance.
greenlight2001May 11, 2007
Move to Brazil? You're a f**king moron. Yeah, let me up and leave my family, friends and community and go shovel cow s**t in Brazil.
one2gambleMay 11, 2007
The issue with claiming it will be cheaper is that each large farming company would consolidate until you have a few large players. Those large players would fix the market prices to remain profitable.Farming operations can go years as it is without turning a profit until the market turns. That wouldn't happen with fewer players in the market. That head of lettuce isnt 99 cents because of government subsidies, its 99cents because of competition and supply, competition that is kept alive by those government subsidies. If the ag industry could cut supply (which would happen if the government got out of the way) It would create an artificial demand which would drive prices up, not down.
jmpeagleMay 12, 2007
@ one2gambleWHO DO YOU THINK GETS ALL THE SUBSIDIES?? More money is given per acre to the large agribusinesses that cover thousands of acres than to the small family farms giving agribusiness an ADVANTAGE over family farms. Every single country including the United States has seen prices fall after the removal of subsidies and seen huge jumps in productivity. Where is yor common sense? Also in a globa market is IMPOSSIBLE for any firm in a market as commoditized as food to have any effect on price. If the largest agribusiness in the world were to go under, prices would not change at all.