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<PREFIX>Mr</PREFIX>
<FIRST>James</FIRST>
<MIDDLE>R</MIDDLE>
<LAST>Penn</LAST>
<SUFFIX></SUFFIX>
<TITLE>Retired</TITLE>
<ORGANIZATION>PennDeRosa Farm</ORGANIZATION>
<ADDR1>5657 Union Hwy</ADDR1>
<ADDR2></ADDR2>
<CITY>Gaffney</CITY>
<STATE>SC</STATE>
<ZIP>29340</ZIP>
<EMAIL>James@pennderosa.com</EMAIL>
<PHONE_H></PHONE_H>
<PHONE_B></PHONE_B>
<ISSUE>AGRI</ISSUE>
<SUBJECT>Aid to Farmers</SUBJECT>
<CUSTOM1>70.210.7.113</CUSTOM1>
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Governor Haley, I am contacting you to urge that you not provide reimbursements to farmers who are claiming crop loss due to flooding this past quarter. I agree with your assessment that farmers should have crop insurance as a part of their normal operations to offset losses due to weather. The argument that insurance claims will not cover the losses says to me that annual operations programs are not being evaluated or have been accepted as allowable risk. Either way, this is the businesses' responsibility and not the governments. As a retired business owner and now retired to the farm this makes about as much sense as if I were to have asked the government to reimburse my losses on a project because of schedule delays and impacts due to weather or acts of God. The request before you as well as most subsidies, including farm subsidies, amount to nothing more than entitlement programs that are collapsing our economy. Most of us, conservatives, will complain about welfare programs but not consider that a reimbursement by government under any program or by a different name is somehow not welfare. Once an individual or company participates in these programs they are hard pressed to abandon them. If a for profit company requires an ongoing subsidy to exist they should be allowed to fail. This is a component of our free capital market and what a true conservative should stand for.
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