Agricultural relief: Agricultural relief

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Identifikator:: 1831932415

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Title:: Agricultural relief

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1831935406

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-232218

Document type:: Volume

Title:: Agricultural relief

Volume count:: Pt. 9

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: III S., S. 591 - 642

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Statement of Fred H. Sexauer, Executive Secretary Dairymen's League Cooperative Association (inc.) New York City

Collection:: Economics Books

AGRICULTURAL RELIEF Q57 a, 2 Nes. You are not planning or hoping to have milk included pr SEXAURR. No, sir. fr. Jones. It is just the indirect benefit you hope t having a plan that will bring up other farm Tommonitics End tom tend to create interest in other phases of farm life rather than so much in dairying? Mr. SexavEr. Right. I am very strongly of the opinion that no man milks cows from choice. Mr. Jones. I think you are correct in that. Then, any measure which would bring general farm prices up to somewhat the level proportionately with other products would accomplish the same purpose? Mr. SExXAvER. We are not particularly for the Haugen bill or any other bill, but we are for something which will accomplish that result. However, at the present tinie we are not convinced that there is any other bill which has been presented which will do that, other than this type of bill, which embodies within it a method of placing those losses back on the individual producer in such a way that nothing is taken from the National Treasury. As an organization, we are opposed to a subsidy; we are opposed to anything which approaches 1t, because we believe it is too easily used by others and not easily enough used by farmers, and we are in favor of something which will throw any losses occasioned by the marketing of excess production, let us say, back on to the producer of that product. Mr. Jones. But in that connection, of course, the direct appro- priation, if there were no provisions for repayment, would be a sub- sidy. But a measure which ties outo the tariff system and spreads its advantage, if any, out over a large percentage of folks, would not necessarily be any more of a subsidy than the tariff, would it—with direct reference to the so-called export premium or debenture plan? Mr. SEXAUER. I am not in a position to discuss the details of other bills, but I will say this, that my theory of a snbsidy—and 1 may be wrong in this—but my theory of a subsidy is that anything which takes out of the Government money which is..collected for another purpose, regardless of how collected, if collected for.another purpose, tends so closely to subsidy that we, as farmers, would find difficulty in differentiating between the methods. tr Mr. KINcHELOE. You are for any measure, that will take the money out of the pockets of the taxpayers themselves for their own business; now what is the difference between taking the money out of the pockets of the taxpayers themselves for ;the benefit of a business or taking his. taxes out of the Treasury after he pays 1t in there? i Mr. SExavuer. I am not exactly sure that I get the gist of your question, but if you refer to the taxpayer taking the amounts of money out of the taxpayers for the—— Mr. KincueLoe. What I am talking about 1s, you said you were opposed to any kind of a subsidy, that your organization was against any kind of a subsidy? Mr. SExaver. We are. Mr. KincuerLoe. And that you were opposed to any bill that would take any money out of the Treasury. Now. I ask you as an

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