Grain prices are higher than ever, only an idiot or victim of global warming drought is not making money now.

Many republicans are framing the vote on farm subsidies or crop price support as a tax.  Those who do not want the welfare to farmers cut claim cutting it is a tax hike.  Did you get that twist?  Now, tangled up in all this is the ethanol.   We give welfare money to farmers who grow corn at a very high profit already, a food, they sell it to a distiller, who sells ethanol to the oil company who gets another welfare to mix it with gas, the whole thing ends up higher priced than gas even though it was subsidized by tax payers, it delivers fewer Btu of energy, harms old engines, consumes almost as much fuel in the total grow and distiller process as it produces, the definition of unsustainable.

To complicate things, this bill has some wrinkles in it only now coming to light, such as allowing more Brazalian ethanol into the US.  It's squirming like a jug full of ants, I can't see what's going on, I don't know if cutting the welfare to farmers and the welfare to refiners is a ruse for something more damaging or a better idea.  Koch wants the South American ethanol brought in, more hints the devil himself is stirring the ants.  On this one I give up, I don't have a clue.  But, I pose this question still;
If cutting farm payments is a tax increase on farmers, then why the hell is cutting welfare to poor families not fought over by the Republicans as a tax increase on families?   Why?

Farm payments should halt, either we are in a market economy or not, and foreign ethanol should not be increased.  Full disclosure: I own a grain farm, thanks for the tax dollars you send me, but we could get by without it if you would rather it go to the nations common good.