Name just one thing that America and the E.U could cut to start getting back on track financially

[johnsobas]

sperrico87 said:

BlkPaladin said:

Kasz216 said:
Farm subsidies.

Not only would it save us all kinds of money.

Food would become cheaper.

Actually it would make food more expensive, and drive thousands of farmers out of work driving the cost up more. You cannot decent make money off of farming anymore unless you are a mega farm.

Almost all of the subsidies that come from the Dept of Agriculture go to the giant corporate farms.  That's the only reason those "mega" farms make decent money.  The pretty little portrait most people have of the family-owned farm being driven asunder isn't necessarily the case. 

at the very worse it would make food prices go up less than the amount of taxes that would be returned.  The market is more efficient at setting prices than the government.