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Tobacco Turns Into Pork
by Michael in New York on 7/26/2004 08:07:00 PM
That massive tobacco payout -- $12 billion and counting -- seems
more and more like a massive bailout for major tobacco growers,
rather than a reasonable way of weaning small farmers off
government handouts propping up their business. The ones profitting
the most? The large and medium-size growers that have been
rapidly expanding in the last few years while small farmers quit.
Overseas competition and antiquated quotas left over from theDepression meant we were losing ground in the world market. Now,
thanks to our tax dollars going up in smoke, those companiesalready growing will flourish even more. Experts expect some crops -- like the flue-cured tobacco that dominates North Carolina (which
alone gets $4 billion) -- to grow from 300 million pounds to 450 or
even 500 million pounds.
Federal Tobacco Tax Increase a Good
Reason to Quit Smoking
No April Fooling: Higher Taxes OnTobacco Really Do Reduce Smoking ...
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Tobacco Turns Into Pork
by Michael in New York on 7/26/2004 08:07:00 PM
That massive tobacco payout -- $12 billion and counting -- seems
more and more like a massive bailout for major tobacco growers,
rather than a reasonable way of weaning small farmers off
government handouts propping up their business. The ones profitting
the most? The large and medium-size growers that have been
rapidly expanding in the last few years while small farmers quit.
Overseas competition and antiquated quotas left over from theDepression meant we were losing ground in the world market. Now,
thanks to our tax dollars going up in smoke, those companiesalready growing will flourish even more. Experts expect some crops -- like the flue-cured tobacco that dominates North Carolina (which
alone gets $4 billion) -- to grow from 300 million pounds to 450 or
even 500 million pounds.
Federal Tobacco Tax Increase a Good
Reason to Quit Smoking
No April Fooling: Higher Taxes OnTobacco Really Do Reduce Smoking ...
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