Manhattan's Billionaire Farmers
Book Details
Author(s)Yasha Levine
PublisherS.H.A.M.E. Books
ISBN / ASINB00KZO4GOC
ISBN-13978B00KZO4GO0
Sales Rank1,744,204
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Federal farm subsidies funnel billions of dollars to the richest Americans living in the most elite and expensive ZIP codes...
Most people know next to nothing about this welfare-for-the-rich program, probably because these billionaires want it that way. Why get the masses worked up? Best to let them think the $200 billion they spent from 1995 through 2006 went to friendly farmers with cute farmhouses, rather than to Chevron or Kenneth Lay. Better to let urban entrepreneurs call themselves backyard farmers and toil away for the locavore movement, than to realize that their rich neighbors are reaping actual “farm” subsidies.
Most people know next to nothing about this welfare-for-the-rich program, probably because these billionaires want it that way. Why get the masses worked up? Best to let them think the $200 billion they spent from 1995 through 2006 went to friendly farmers with cute farmhouses, rather than to Chevron or Kenneth Lay. Better to let urban entrepreneurs call themselves backyard farmers and toil away for the locavore movement, than to realize that their rich neighbors are reaping actual “farm” subsidies.
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