And I have to say, not enough recognition has been paid to the fact that we have brought it down. And I think that we're going to continue bringing it down with the program that we have in place. And we're very happy about it. As a matter of fact, we've succeeded beyond our expectations, and that's what's contributed to the coming deficit. You know, government gets a profit from inflation.
Inflation is a tax.
If it's a sales tax, and the price of a commodity goes up, and the sales tax is based on percentage, the government's percentage goes up. Today, a sizeable percentage of the normal working people in this country are up to the 50 percent bracket. And so we haven't been able to turn it down to where prices are going down, but we have cut that rate at which they're going up. American Agriculture Mr. Weber. There's quite a bit of concern here in Iowa and throughout the Midwest about the stability of the family farm.