It’s not really about the small farmer. Cargill is the largest privately held company with vast revenue and international land holdings or trading of commodities, while ADM is public but equally as large. Together with JBS, the Brazilian own meat trading company, they collectively control the beef trade, the soybean trade, wheat trade, corn, etc., along with all chemicals derivatives from processing animals and plants, like high fortunes corn syrup, ethanol, and many used in food processing and for industry. These exporters dominated for decades and decades food exports to the world, making them number one. Cargill went to court with Nestle for child labor allegations stemming from their control of the cocoa trade in Africa but the Supreme Court found them not liable in 2021. When Trump banned soybean trade to China, it was what looked liked purposeful, since Cargill trade the whole of Brazilian crop to China, letting them fund the rainforest deforestation of the mass scale farmers they buy the crop as futures from in that country. Essentially, they were done a favor and benefited from the ban, by recouping the investment and solidifying the market. The small farmers, who get propped out during elections season to be the face of the American farmer, are a front for these few huge monolithic privately controlled companies that control 80 percent (or more) of crop trade and production in the US (even JBS is mostly European and American owned through investment into Brazilian partner through stocks). Should the small farmer get a tax break? They don’t dictate market prices—these monoliths do along with the mega supermarkets for vegetables and fruits—and are subjected to them and to the banks they loan from. These small farmers I guarantee are not setting farming policy and tax laws through their lobbyists, but the other companies along with Monsanto through industry lobbying groups are. The first company or person Obama visited after getting elected Senator was Monsanto. From there it was a straight trajectory upward. No politician is free of this, no matter what sentiments they profess to even what child slave labors are violated since they keep an arms length through indirect buying for crops.

I get your point though, and the strong point is generational wealth building. That is foundational and should be addressed somehow. Thanks.