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<blockquote data-quote="DrWazzock" data-source="post: 7861491" data-attributes="member: 2119"><p>I don’t know if “subsidy” helps or hinders critical mass. As my neighbour used to say, “I could buy your family’s farm with my BPS cheque and have plenty left over”, and many small farms here have gone that way.</p><p>Then on the other hand if we just stopped farming and closed the gate we would soon have an oak and sycamore wood here without lifting a spade, which is what Lord Gokdsmith wants isn’t it?</p><p>I think grants and subsidies tend to benefit “schemers”, dilute the worth of hard work and real efficiency and only seem to inflate input prices.</p><p>In my view they do nothing but distort the reality. Take them away and we would see where priorities really lie.</p><p>If the public really want greening and public access then let’s have a turnstile on the public footpath and see how folks really value it when the cash is really coming directly out of their own wallets rather than being skimmed from their hard earned wages by the tax man.</p><p>If Mr Cummings hadn’t left, taking the brains with him, then I think subsidies wouldn’t soon be gone and the whole system would have been none the worse for it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DrWazzock, post: 7861491, member: 2119"] I don’t know if “subsidy” helps or hinders critical mass. As my neighbour used to say, “I could buy your family’s farm with my BPS cheque and have plenty left over”, and many small farms here have gone that way. Then on the other hand if we just stopped farming and closed the gate we would soon have an oak and sycamore wood here without lifting a spade, which is what Lord Gokdsmith wants isn’t it? I think grants and subsidies tend to benefit “schemers”, dilute the worth of hard work and real efficiency and only seem to inflate input prices. In my view they do nothing but distort the reality. Take them away and we would see where priorities really lie. If the public really want greening and public access then let’s have a turnstile on the public footpath and see how folks really value it when the cash is really coming directly out of their own wallets rather than being skimmed from their hard earned wages by the tax man. If Mr Cummings hadn’t left, taking the brains with him, then I think subsidies wouldn’t soon be gone and the whole system would have been none the worse for it. [/QUOTE]
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