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Now as a senior in high school, my government teacher started class one day with this thought

experiment.

Who gets the most welfare in America?

He wrote it on the board.

Some students guessed poor white people, some guessed poor black people, but the purpose

of this thought experiment was to get us to rethink what welfare was because nobody

in the room guessed farmers.

I mean, do they receive a lot of government support?

Yes.

Would they ever describe it as welfare?

No, for their dead bodies.

But farmers get a lot of support from the federal government.

Caitlin, do we rights about food policy for the Washington Post?

They would say they really need it because farming isn't inherently deeply uncertain business.

You have bad weather one year.

You don't want to wipe out our farming sector.

You know, it's important for food security in this country that we have a farming sector.

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