In chapter 8 Wheelan addresses how the government spends around $7 billion on pointless farms. This tax subsidy is bestowed on a small group of farmers(2 percent), putting money in each of the farmers pockets while the costs are spread over the remaining 98 percent of us. You may think and wonder how the heck this happens, but by the 98 percent of us who don't know about these subsidies the people who do are the farmers who obviously vote for the subsidies. This is absolutely shocking and ridiculous how presidential campaigns are becoming transactional in the way that they will do things for people if they receive their votes. We are seeing this happen today with farmers. With the farmers votes in states like Iowa where they are a caucus state which leads to a huge impact on the election.
Overall I find this shocking how we as the people are letting this happen. We need to make a change and so do presidential campaigns. With them being transactional instead of transformational and benefitting the economy, they hurt the economy. The government can really determine the US economy so as the people we need to be engaged in what they are doing.
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