One Way to Create Jobs in America

If the government would stop subsidizing chemical-based commercial agriculture, consider the consequences.  The price of the products produced by these farmers would go up, taxes could go down (or stay the same but come closer to a balanced budget), organic food could compete with chemical-based food on price, consumers would buy more organic food.  Organic food production is more labor intensive, so jobs would be created.  Pollution would decrease in streams, rivers, and oceans.  Lower demand for chemical fertilizer, pesticide, herbicide, fungicide, and GMO seeds would make their prices increase even more, thus making organic prices even more appealing. Local farms would spring up like crazy because demand would return.  People would, over time, be eating healthier food and would have fewer medical problems, thus relieving some of the burden on the healthcare industry and the perceived need for government controled insurance.  More money for food would be kept in the local economy rather than amassing in large multi-national corporations.  Large food recalls would decrease since the food supply would be produced more and more by small local farmers. Transportation of food would decrease, thus decreasing our dependence on foreign oil and decreasing the amount of pollution created.  Food would be selected for flavor and nutrition rather than shippability and shelf life.  Farms would tend to be polycultural rather than monocultural, thus decreasing the risk of blights and pests.  Soil fertility would start to increase rather than decrease, due to soil management practices utilizing manure and mineral balancing techniques.  Large chemical based farms would eventually go out of business and those farmers (approximately 1% of the population) would have to find something else to do, possibly small scale local farming.  The number of farmers would increase from 1% to 5%.  If we create jobs for 4% of the population (~8% of the workforce), we just solved unemployment.  All by cutting a backwards subsidy.