The only thing I would add is that normally on a farming operation, any profit you make, if there is profit there, is all invested back within the farm, whereas a lot of small businesses would be taking a wage out of that, and, as well, building a retirement fund. It's not all of them, but, as Coralee said, the margins are so tight within farming that a lot of times there just isn't that capital to put away for investment for retirement. The investment is the farm. When they have to give up a huge portion of that on their sale to the government, a lot of farmers could be left in poverty after building their empires throughout their lives.
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