That's just one of the problems with farm subsidies.

Why should the middle class and the rich get a discount on food? Let them pay the real price and save the financial assistance for those who can't. Increasing welfare benefits for higher food prices will cost less than subsidizing food for everybody.

Another problem is international. Farmers in poorer countries can't make a living because subsidized first world farmers overproduce and end up dumping their output on the world market at prices that unsubsidized farmers can't match. The US isn't the only offender here, but the more rich countries kill farm subsidies, the better life will get for farmers without a rich government backing them up.

Yep, interstingly, American's disproportiate love for Chicken breasts is argueably what crippled Jamaica into being so poor and relying on tourism and sweat shops... and that was before subsidies.

People tend to claim "Free Trade" screws rich nations and cheap labor jobs move elsewhere.  In reality I'd argue it's the opposite.  Rich nations benefit, and poor nation are generally hurt.

Just to get this straight:

You have to pay the right price of the product, because no subsidies artifically influence the price any longer. Now you basically pay what the product is worth.
The reaction to this is: "DAMN YOU OBAMA!" and "No it is DAMN YOU CONGRESS!"

You know that subsidies (no matter if they are American or European) basically kill any chance that 3rd world countries get any sort of export? The irony behind this is that African countries import milk poweder from the EU, because it is cheaper for them. Even though that is the only market they could actually compete with Western countries, because there is not much knowhow and or investments needed to produce milk.

Subsidies means that we pay billions (taxes) to artifically reduce a price of a product, which is not a good thing to begin with. Other producers in the world suffer from that, because they sell it for the regular price, which is a bad thing as well. What is wrong with paying the right and fair price?

Did every single person just ignore my comment?

We ARE paying for milk at what it is worth. Milk is being sold at $19-$20 per hundred pounds because farmers are able to make a profit selling it for that much (and this profit has NOTHING to do with subsidies). If the price does indeed increase to $39.53 per hundred pounds, farmers are going to be ROLLING in the money. Due to the increased price, there will likely be much less milk bought, but farmers will be able to make considerably less milk, but make such an extreme profit on it, that it honestly won't matter.

Couldn't agree more.   If they do get rid of the farm subsidies maybe soda can go back to superior pure sugar.'

If somehow congress ignored the huge corporate farm lobby and corn lobby and let these uneeded subsidies expire it would be great.