WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley made the following comment after learning that an amendment introduced by Rep. Jeff Fortenberry to place a hard cap on farm payments cleared the House Rules Committee and can be considered during the House debate on the farm and nutrition bill. Fortenberry’s amendment is nearly identical to Grassley’s payment limit bill that he introduced in the Senate and was included in the Senate-passed farm bill.
“The House could do a lot of good by passing Representative Fortenberry’s amendment. The amendment mirrors the language I was able to get into the Senate farm bill with the assistance of Chairman Stabenow and Ranking Member Cochran. It makes the farm bill defensible and effective. It ensures that farm payments go to those who need them most – small- and medium-sized farmers who don’t have the resources of large farmers who can weather downturns without a big check from federal subsidy programs. These large payments, which we’re trying to eliminate, drive up land prices and keep young and beginning farmers from being able to compete. Large farmers are an important piece of the puzzle to feed and fuel the world, but taxpayers don’t need to subsidize them to get bigger. In addition, the reforms in this amendment will also help put an end to all the nonfarmers currently receiving farm payments. To top it off, the amendment saves the taxpayers money. It’s a win-win-win.”
The Republican-led House failed to pass the roughly $500 billion farm bill on June 20th by a vote of 195-234.
8 thoughts on “Grassley wanted to cap “large” subsidy payments from federal government to farmers”
Ya but the low lives we have here don’t care if a millionaire gets free money because they are already on a higher level. What really bugs the little people are when even smaller people get a freebie. People are dumb that way and are easy to manipulate.
What a hypocrite. Just do a search for the amount of Farm Subsities that Uncle Chuck took over the years. Grassley Farms, now in the third generation, harvested millions, not to mention all the other ag perks that he gobbled up at our expense. He was so damn good at it he taught his grandkids how to play the game, all legal of course
This is what I call milking the system. The deal is this. The richer you are, and those with more power can milk the system with millions. while everyone is complaining about the less fortunate people getting hundreds.
here is the website to look for names and out of state businesses getting free money.
http://farm.ewg.org/top_recips.php?fips=19000&progcode=totalfarm®ionname=Iowa
somewhere on this site you can look up each county. to see who gets money from that counties farmland.
BTW>>> its not all farmers
WHY NOT SIMPLY MAKE IT LAW THAT THE FARMER HAS TO LIVE ON THE PROPERTY IN ORDER TO GET ANY FREE MONEY SUBSIDY. sounds simple to me.
@50 miles-sounds reasonable to me. How about they MUST work the land themselves.
So then, why doesnt these so called smart politicians just do the simple AND RIGHT thing.
ANSWER: because it eliminates their way to milk the system.
Good going Chuck ! Also their was a requirement that welfare people had to be job ready if called – lots of lobbyist pork in the current farm bill that should be cut – but that’s why it did not pass.