Queen Elizabeth II has had over €8mn in subsidies from the CAP since 1999.
Prince Charles has "only" had €1.5mn from the CAP on the other hand. However does he survive? That's less than half of Earl Strathmore who's had €3.3mn from the CAP.
Queen Elizabeth II has had over €8mn in subsidies from the CAP since 1999.
Prince Charles has "only" had €1.5mn from the CAP on the other hand. However does he survive? That's less than half of Earl Strathmore who's had €3.3mn from the CAP.
Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer
Are you talking about trade tariffs, tax codes, or seed patents? Those are all "subsidies" of some sort. As you said, the vast majority of "aid" goes to major conglomerates via those subsidies, and they take the lion's share. They have more sway over markets and legislators, by virtue of their size, long after the tipping point.
Small farms, family farmers, and community farms don't have the same political power. But that doesn't negate their importance in the domestic food chain.
But the small fry don't get the subsidies in either the EU or USA.
In the EU half of all farmers get less than €1000 in subsidies ... They account for 4 percent of the total subsidies. Stopping subsidising large conglomerates and wealthy aristocrats could if anything help the small farmers (currently unsupported) by letting them work on a level playing field.
EU, UK, and US have different ideas about farm subsidies. In the US, "aid" is not direct income support for small operations. Instead, we use tax credits or rebates. The US Government has contracts to buy "surplus" commodities, but that's usually reserved for the big conglomerates who always produce more than they can sell.
Our small fry farmers have been operating at a disadvantage compared to the Big Ag farmers, but that's slowly changing in the right direction.
In The Netherlands most of the subsidies go to small farmers recieving less than €10k in subsidies. Subsidies in the in excess of €100k account for less than 5% of the total sum.
According to capreform.eu proposals that would cap the subsidies at €300 k would affect 1-2% of the total amount. Which means again; you got it entirely wrong but have latched onto some extreme statistics to make you want to bring down the entire system.
Congratulations America
It depends where you draw your threshold doesn't it? I don't see why anyone should get anything even close to €300k in support.
If we draw the boundary at the arithmetic median then most farmers get less than €1000 in support. Yet that majority of farmers get just 4 percent of the total. 96% of the total support goes to the other half.
One politician in Finland has taken over three quarters of a million euros. Nice job that if you can get it. In any other walk of life that would be called corruption.
Can you please explain why Queen Elizabeth the Second has needed to get over €8mn in farm subsidies? Can you explain how that helps sustain our food supply or whatever the reason is for the CAP today?
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