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*Headdesk. Headdesk. Headdesk.*
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Oh, is this cute or what?
Wheat brings in $8.35 per bushel. Yields for wheat in Southern Illinois is about 56 bushels per acre. Once land is rented By The People for $1,000,000 per acre per year, a bushel of wheat goes for $17,863.
The price will just adjust upward after farmers and agricorps band together to hire mercenary companies to defend their fields from roving bands of marauders and starving families. This makes the crops even more valuable, which means that the farmers have to pay the mercenaries more to stop them from pillaging the farmland. That increases the price more, so the bandits get more desperate.
This vicious cycle creates a state of hyperinflation that wrecks the economy within four months. Skyscraper hydroponic plants are briefly left unfinished as workers go on strike. They are almost coaxed back onto the job site when they are paid in corn cobs and apples, but labor unions step in and refuse to work for anything less than fifteen pounds of sirloin steak per 6-hour day. By this point, a gram of soy meal is worth about three bricks of cocaine.
The Canadian-American border is walled up and guarded to protect America's Hat from America's masses of refugees. For the first time ever, 100% of all migrants crossing the Mexican-American border are headed south. That wall finally gets built, because you apparently need an iron wall to prevent the proletariat from fleeing paradise.
Of course, the government solves the problem by nationalizing the mercenaries and incorporating them into the armed services. This doesn't stop the graft and corruption, though. It just means that if the farmer complains about armed men stealing their crops, they get shot for sabotage, obstructionism, and counter-Soviet activities. Naturally, the farmers fail to meet quotas and get shipped off to labor camps because everyone keeps stealing from their fields.
Inevitably, the farms will be nationalized as well. There'll be resistance, of course, because all that farmland accounts for about 408 trillion (worthless) dollars in revenue, but something must be done. Something other than reverting to a (relatively) sane taxation plan. Besides, the State can make a profit by selling the food at markup.
There will still be food shortages, since we're staffing the farms with anyone too stupid to escape the kolkhoz and the people in charge have never studied history. Or maybe they did, and decided they wanted omelettes anyway.
...Satire. This was supposed to be satire. I think I got lost halfway through.
Sigh.
Yellowdingo, millions of people have died in countries all over the world because some idiot got in power and was determined to create his little utopia, reality be damned. So, would you kindly go take a long walk off a short pier.
Yellowdingo, millions of people have died in countries all over the world because some idiot got in power and was determined to create his little utopia, reality be damned.
This.
You are arguing for further disposession.
I'd be interested to know what you think that word means.
No, I tell a lie. I really have no interest in further exploration of the depths of your ignorance.
You are arguing for further disposession.
Me? Arguing for dispossession? Oh, that's rich, especially coming from the statist calling for a land grab. No, I've just given this more thought than you have. If you tax companies for acreage used at the extortionate price you mentioned, farms will be taxed into oblivion.
You can outlaw everything larger than a family farm, and watch people starve by the millions.
You can exempt farming companies from the tax. If you do, I challenge you to come up with a robust definition of "Agricultural company" that will be exempt. Go ahead, try. Try it.
You can nationalize the farms and declare state-owned companies to be exempt from the tax. You won't get as many dead bodies in the street as you would with Option #1, but you're still going to be up there with Stalin, Pol Pot, and Mao.
Perhaps restrict voting to land owners only.
I'm fairly certain that I have no gorram clue what you're saying here.
I've just given this more thought than you have.
<sarcasm> And that is a high hurdle to clear, let me tell you. </sarcasm>
Perhaps restrict voting to land owners only.I'm fairly certain that I have no gorram clue what you're saying here.
No, you understood him perfectly. He has no gorram clue either.
equal share for all
You do realize that this proposal would put just about every small business in the US out of business. It would take 3 to 6 times my boss's business's annual gross income to pay one years "rent."
Would you have to pay "rent" on the land that your home is on? Many rural areas now require that homes be placed on a minimum of one acre.
How about farms? Average farm size in the US is 441 acres, that would $441 million a year in "rent."
How do you determine how much "rent" to charge a company that is one the 41st floor of an office building?
Would you have to pay "rent" on the land that your home is on? Many rural areas now require that homes be placed on a minimum of one acre.
And now that The People own all the land in the US, what's to stop The People from evicting you off your property? Or deciding that you have too much land and auctioning off lots?
How about farms? Average farm size in the US is 441 acres, that would $441 million a year in "rent."
If he exempts farming companies, I wanna see him come up with a robust definition of what a farming company is.
No, I tell a lie. I really have no interest in further exploration of the depths of your ignorance.
I don't think it's his ignorance that frustrates me so much as the truly abyssal level of his lack of judgment. Jeezum crow, Ding, if you're going to propose change, could you start by helping us get rid of the never-to-be-sufficiently-cursed Electoral College?