Well TN, it isn't just that kind of welfare. Most farmers vote yellow dog Democrat REGARDLESS of the candidate. Check out Farmer Welfare in subsidies, and you see that it's bigger than the welfare your talking about. By the way, just as the project welfare recipients get extra money, for extra kids, the farmers sign up wives and other family members and double down on their subsidy checks. It was on the 5th page of our local county paper a couple weeks ago, and the farmers didn't come to the coffee shop for over a week. Soon as it died down, they were back in there complaining how hard they had it. In checking the pickups on the parking lot you found they drove the fanciest ones. To farm out of.
My point is, there is a lot of welfare out there, and the farmer IS JUST AS ADAMENT, AND FEELS JUST AS DESERVING. And the farmer is also not the only one. Special interest lobbiests are killing the tax pays will to work.