Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!houxm!ihnp4!stolaf!bormanp From: bormanp@stolaf.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics Subject: Re: A Flame at Affirmative Action Message-ID: <1015@stolaf.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Jun-83 13:27:29 EDT Article-I.D.: stolaf.1015 Posted: Mon Jun 6 13:27:29 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Jun-83 04:28:03 EDT Lines: 18 As you said, the government taxes tobacco products, but also, tobacco farmers get a massive subsidy from the government for growing their tobacco, which the government then says is bad. Pretty stupid huh? I met a guy from the south who farmed tobacco (he was about 16). He cliamed he made $5,000 in one year on an acre and a half of tobacco. I told him that my friends lived on farms of up to a 1,000 acres. He thought the must be millionares. Have you looked at what farmers up north get for corn and soybeans? No, I don't like Tobacco I wish it would go away Yes, I know it wont. Paul R Borman St. Olaf College ihnp4!stolaf!agnes!paul