anybody done this before?

[blumpkin blownuts]

there's no magic by which a subsidy works for private foundations and doesn't work for government; it just never works, period

farm subsidies used to be great for controlling food prices, until over 90% of our meat started coming from meat factories/CAFOs, and giant conglomerates monopolized everything from water rights to seed-grain availability to the ever-shrinking amount of family farms