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In reply to the discussion: Well, this is MY last post on the farmers (welfare) package.... [View all]kbowman
(6 posts)20. call it farmfare or aggfare
Last edited Thu Oct 16, 2025, 01:05 PM - Edit history (1)
Relief for farmers should have a name similar sounding to relief for poor struggling non-farmers. Give it a similar sounding name - e.g. farmfare, etc. They see themselves as different, but they are not. Make them think whenever they hear it. I'm sure someone here can come up with some good ones.
Edit: However, I remembered that most farmers are fairly well off and farming if not owning multiple square miles of land (I grew up surrounded by them). So, farmfare and wellfare are not really the same thing. One set of people genuinely could use help, the other are well off, but don't want to have any consequences for their past bad decisions.
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