TG, fyi some of the programs are funded by private foundations. Moreover, my understanding is that they are state-based programs (and primarily in the NE, where due to the terrain, rollovers are the most common). If you don't live in a state that has one, you ain't paying for it so don't worry about it.
Meanwhile, here in NY, my taxes are quite high. Specifically, the schools tax is about killing all of the farms around us. The little upstate towns have run-down housing you can rent for next to nothing, so they are rented by what is locally called "welfarians" (or "woodchucks") who fill them up with kids. Because the houses are run-down, the landlords pay little property tax. Meanwhile, thanks to decades of globalization, local manufacturing is about gone. The state supports local schools less and less, so who keeps the local schools afloat? The farmers in the surrounding rural area, that's who: who pay through the nose in property taxes which go directly to the local school district. So if some farmer here needs a little help to put on a ROPS so that s/he can safely farm and try to put food on the table while paying property taxes as if he's a factory, you better believe I have zero, as in ZERO, as in Z.E.R.O. problem with that farmer getting some ROPS help. I don't want anyone else to lose their dad like my friend did at a young age.
Your values are not mine, and your priorities are not mine. That doesn't make either of us right, or wrong. :tiphat:
