Stop farm subsidies

There have been numerous letters bemoaning big government and wasteful spending, with Joan McKinley’s (Sept. 18) letter being just the latest. I wrote to Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers suggesting that she give her constituents here in Eastern Washington what they have been asking for: less government and less government spending. The answer is simple: drop all rural and farm subsidy programs.

People in our rural areas do not want to pay taxes for government programs, and I think it is only just that their own programs be first to go. I think many in the cities of this state are tired of subsidizing the rural/farm lifestyle choice, especially since those receiving the subsidies complain about the very government providing them.

Since rural folk are so adamant about not paying taxes, they clearly want to pay for their own fire, water, postal service, hospitals, farms, roads, electricity and all of the other aspects of their lives that the rest of us have been subsidizing for so long.

This appears to be a win-win solution. What say you, Rep. McMorris Rodgers?

Sandra Christensen

Spokane