The Welfare Hustle: How Farmers Got Conned Into Voting Against The Farm
Let’s get one thing straight right out of the gate: SNAP, WIC, and food assistance programs aren’t just about feeding the poor. They are, at their core, agricultural subsidies—a lifeline for farmers that keeps their businesses afloat. The government buys up surplus milk, corn, wheat, beans, and everything in between at a price that keeps farms alive, then redistributes it to low-income families. Kill food assistance, and you kill the financial backbone of American farming.
So, congratulations, Iowa. Well done, Nebraska. Bravo, Wisconsin. You just voted to torch your own farms and small towns.
When Trump gutted these programs, small family farms were the first to feel the burn. No subsidies, no cushion—just a market designed to break them, while corporate agribusiness vultures circled overhead, ready to buy them out for pennies on the dollar. And now? The billionaires win, the family farms die, and the very people who cheered “cutting welfare” are left wondering why their towns are turning into ghost stories.
This isn’t a theory. It’s not some leftist fever dream. It’s cold, brutal economics. If you take away food assistance, you take away guaranteed buyers for American-grown food. The very same corn, wheat, and dairy that feeds the hungry also feeds the profit margins of struggling farmers.
And yet, year after year, conservative farmers march to the polls and vote for the same politicians who gut their safety nets. They scream about “welfare moochers” while cashing subsidy checks that wouldn’t exist without the programs they oppose. It’s self-inflicted financial ruin on a national scale.
But hey, keep telling yourself you’re fighting socialism while selling your farm to the highest corporate bidder. The billionaires appreciate your sacrifice.
