>>507104745Honest question:
If farming as an absolute necessity because your people need food to eat, and farming cannot both pay its workers well enough to make a living AND function as a for-profit industry...
Why not just nationalize the farms? The government runs the farms, employs farmers directly, everything is done at cost. Excess food produced is then sold abroad, with the proceeds going directly to the US treasury to alleviate the debt and provide a non-tax source of income. As the government is the employer of the farms, it becomes trivial to ensure that only US citizens are employed because they have every means available to make that distinction in their own records.
So the food gets grown, the cost remains cheap because it is done at cost, the workers get paid fair wages and the benefits of any state or federal employee, and it provides a non-tax source of income for the government.
Farm corpos like Tyson go the way of the dinosaur, but I don't see that as a huge loss for anyone but their executives. Everyone who isn't a corpo wins. Or is there something I am missing?