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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
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Posted: Mon Jun  6 13:27:29 1983
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	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