Originally Posted by
tigerpiper
so they show all these old leather-face smokers with throat speak devices and what not. Maybe I would care more if the government did not subsidize tobacco with crop subsidies and tax breaks for Philip Morris etc. (I guess I should look these up). Its right out of 1984- fund both the evil and the anti-evil, then you can't get voted out of office.
It's true that the federal government subsidizes tobacco, but for a mere $18M/year. That's a negligible 0.2% of the overall subsidies given out. Corn gets $2.8B and surprisingly cotton gets $1.4B.
I wonder how many of those red state farmers receiving federal handouts have derisively called Obama a Socialist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricul...#United_States