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Most farm subsidies don't go to small, family farms. Instead, most farm subsidies go to the big business, corporate farmers. Ted Turner, who was recently listed as the 38th richest person in the world, and is the single biggest private landowner in the U.S., is a big recipient of these subsidies.
In early America, 90% of people were farmers. Thanks to better and better technology, today, only 2% of people in the U.S. are farmers. Those other 88% of people are now working in other industries, where their labor is used more efficiently. The result is that the average person is better off. We are better off becasue food is much more affordable than it used to be, and we are better off becasue those 88% of the people are working as doctors, scientists, bankers, plumbers, electricians, computer programmers, and many other jobs.
Are you sayiung that this technoloogy and progress are bad things? Do you want to go back to having 90% of the people work as farmers? Do you want to get rid of mechanized farm equipment? Do you want to get rid of supermarkets?
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