This looks quite scary to me!
Gates is circumventing a 1932 anti-corporate farm ownership law
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Gates, already the largest farmland owner in the country, has secured the go ahead to buy the land for $13.5 million under his ‘Red River Trust’ company.(Click Here)
Gates is circumventing a 1932 anti-corporate farm ownership law by pledging to lease the land back to farmers after the purchase is complete.
The Daily Mail reports:
North Dakota’s Agriculture Commissioner, Republican Doug Goehring, previously said that many people feel they are being exploited by the ultra-rich who buy land but do not necessarily share the state’s values.
‘I’ve gotten a big earful on this from clear across the state, it’s not even from that neighborhood,’ Goehring told KFYR-TV…
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AuntyUta 
Lease the land back to farmers? That sounds like what Stalin did in Ukraine. Before the Starvation period., the holdomar, when thousands of Ukrainainans died of starvation. Is Bill finished with his designer shots now? Is this the next killer for the world? Sorry, Bill, but things seem to be picking up for the common folk at bit lately. You might now win after all.
Why is this sort of thing allowed in USA, Mary Anne?
You might NOT win after all. correction
I get it, you mean because things seem to be picking up for the common folk at bit lately. Bill might not win after all! 🙂