Tobacco Subsidies

[brionon]

Did I hear correctly ? Are we, the tax payers, paying subsidies to our European farmers to grow tobacco ?

If we are --are we going mad ?

[robbieh]

We pay subsidies to EU farmers to grow a lot of things. Regardless of what it is they're growing with the subsidies they get, certain countries are getting too much!

[Loosehead]

Yes, Yes and err YES

[woofgang]

not going, gone, looong gone

[Gevs1966]

It's simple ecomomics, the more tobacco the farmers grow the more money they can potentially make in tax when the product is sold in this country. The government makes billions a year on tobacco duty and understandably they want to insure that revenue of that magnitude doesn't disappear.