>>I'm sorry, but if this is the reality that you are talking about then it stinks and has no place at all in a healthy society!
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>Are you saying that if all citizens and all businesses were taxed the exact same percentage it would lead to a healthier society?

No, not at all, and I don't know how you got any such idea from what I wrote.
A corporate farm has other business entities besides farmland/farming. They can use such other businesses in at least two ways not available to a family farmer:
1) cover 'losses' in their farm division by profits in other divisions;
2) use write-offs available in other divisions (and unused) to cover farm-related expenses.

TomW also mentioned the subsidies available to farming entities, and in many cases the corporate farm is aimed specifically at claiming those subsidies! And they have the political clout (lining politician's pockets) to keep those subsidies rolling and growing. Sure, these are available to family farmers too, but they amount to pittances compared to huge corporate farms, and they require paperwork that a family farmer simply may not be able to do (doesn't even hear about it).

Corporations, as has been clearly shown in the recent stock/fraud scandals, will also try to use their financial clout to make "arrangements" with local banks to do things like 'pass' on family farm loan applications or foreclose earlier than they might otherwise have been inclined to do.

And I know virtually nothing on this subject, so you can be sure that there's LOTS MORE of this kind of manipulative crap going on, all to the advantage of corporate entities and to the detriment of the little guy.

This "modern farm economics" is unjust and morally reprehensible in my opinion! They contribute NOTHING in the way of value-added but do suck lots of taxpayer money into their own coffers.