Kenney and Moe should turn off the taps....

[helmsdale]

crop insurance alone..... Tax incentives, gst back, marked fuel, income stabilization pgms... No i'm not going to go find them all. All coming from single mothers tax payments struggling to make ends meet so Saskfarmer and bucket can add to their already obscene net worth. It's a cruel world.

Fair on a general scale...

But individually it can be much different.

A) with crop insurance they are paying for alot of bureaucrats and infrastructure that I feel are unnecessary, and in my individual circumstance, there is no "assistance" with private insurance.

B) gst back: they're called ITC's that all businesses are entitled to because the tax only applies to "value added" due to it's very nature as a VAT. Production is zero rated. In any case we are not selling a finished product anyway, so even if we charged GST on our sales the next stage would be claiming all that charged gst back.

C) Marked fuel only rebates the road tax portion of taxation. Those farming as a proprietorship get personal use with marked fuel in AB, but corporations have to be able to justify every km as business use. Farmers are still charged all remaining federal and provincial excise taxes. The only case, aside from personal use, where it could be seen as a subsidy is when a farmer decided to haul his own grain to market burning marked fuel on highway, or even business use of vehicles on highway. Personally I'd be fine with a Montana style system where marked fuel is literally only allowed Off-Highway.

D) Many are not involved in Ag-Stab. Ag-Invest however, you are very correct on.

[tweety]

Take a peak at the "payment enhancing receipts" as they are called:

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/21-015-x/2012001/technote-notetech3-eng.htm https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/21-015-x/2012001/technote-notetech3-eng.htm