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Sure there are some traditions that shouldnt be preserved solely for the sake of preserving them. But I think that the large number of communities that revolve around farming would benefit as a whole.


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How would these commmunities be hurt?

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If the farmers only make enough money to survive by being subsidized and the other members of the community only make enough money to survive by selling things purchased by subsidy dollars, they're going to be hurt pretty bad by the elimination of subsidies.

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Unless there is just too much land being farmed in general if a farmer shuts down there will be another one to buy or lease his land and the other members of the town who make money off farming will still get business. I don't see many communities collapsing if subsidies were cut off.

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Well, maybe not. It's hard to predict the impact of removing subsidies of that size. But, if the argument is that the farmers and there communitites need that subsidy money to survive, then they clearly will be hurt by the removal of the subsidies.