This refers to small business famers - family famers. Industrial farms should be dismantled.
Farmers are paying illegal immigrants under the table because the cost of labor is too expensive for the return they get on selling products. It needs to be more reasonable for farmers to hire help. And it needs to be American citizens.
There also needs to be reasonable protection for farmers from being sued by workers for unemployment claims etc. Costs of insurance are too high. And a lawsuit by one employee could put the small farmer out of business. This cannot be a way for individuals to take advantage of the system and harm our farmers.
Some thought has to be put in to how to design this so it safeguards both the farmer who is practicing safely and reasonably while also protecting workers from an unsafe and unreasonable environment or schedule. But the design cannot end up harming instead of helping as most systems do now. As such we need input from farmers and workers.
It needs to be more cost efficient for the farmer and worker to hire and work for a farm. Thus I do think tax breaks for farm workers so they do not have the majority of their paycheck taken making the job not worth doing.
I don’t quite think you have a full grasp on the farming tax benefits as well as the subsidies, incentives, etc for farmers and ranchers. The illegals you speak of for field work is seasonal at best and would be if hiring American workers as well and thusly there would be no unemployment benefits available or necessary. I absolutely see what you are speaking of and agree with hiring American workers however this industry is skewed
I am referring to the workers. If they don’t make enough money people are not going to want to do that extremely labor intensive work if the government is going to take all of it with taxes. Do the workers get subsidies, incentives, and tax benefits?
How do you see it as skewed? What do you mean exactly? Farmers do not make a lot of money unless you are referring to an Industrial farm. I am focusing on small business farmers - family owned.
I thing that the subsidies and incentives for farmers are an issue in that they drive the industry to an unhealthy production of foods such as GMOs. But that is a different topic. I am not against farmers receiving these things but I don’t think they should dicatate that farmers have to farm a certain product or destroy their product because the government sends them a letter telling them to destroy their crop.