Sarah TaberDec 18, 2022

RT @[email protected]

@[email protected] @[email protected] We need to protect farmland from development, this may not be the best way. Lots of farmers are using the profit from selling their land as their retirement. The retention of farmland as farmland can take many different forms. None of them should penalize the retiring farmers.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BetsyGarrold/status/1604241411934748673

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“@SarahTaber_bww @axman643 We need to protect farmland from development, this may not be the best way. Lots of farmers are using the profit from selling their land as their retirement. The retention of farmland as farmland can take many different forms. None of them should penalize the retiring farmers.”

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Show threadSarah TaberDec 18, 2022

It surprises most people to find US farmers actually make more take-home income than most Americans! Because most of them have above-average-wage day jobs!

If we're all supposed to retire without selling off acreage, so can they!

Show threadSarah Taber

The farm sector has truly poisoned Americans' brains by convincing us all that they're poor.

I'm begging y'all please look at some statistics. Literally any data on US farmers' wealth and income before falling for the poor-lil-guy song & dance they do.

Dec 18, 2022 at 2:56amWeb
Show threadSarah TaberDec 18, 2022

Want to see some? Here you go!

https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/farm-income-and-wealth-statistics/data-files-u-s-and-state-level-farm-income-and-wealth-statistics/

USDA ERS - Data Files: U.S. and State-Level Farm Income and Wealth Statistics

Forecasts and estimates of farm sector income with component accounts: for the United States, 1910-2022F; and for States, 1949-2021. Updated December 1, 2022.

Show threadChrisDec 20, 2022

@sarahtaber

Feel like there's an archetype that's gotten completely lost in our shared pop cultural vocabulary, which TV Tropes used to call "Corrupt Hick" and now calls "Small Town Tyrant" (the rural patriarch who has an entire town/country under his thumb either personally or in tandem with a very small group of similar people). Thread -