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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Are you nuts? CSA, high end restaurants....those are all open to the public. The farms definitely hold themselves out as a public accommodation; in fact, that's their entire business model.[/quote]

Only to those who can afford it. No one in Langley Park is enjoying a high end meal at a farm to table restaurant. The country club memberships are open to the public as well it just that very few people can afford to join them. Congressional's initial membership fee is in the hundreds of thousands. The ones that discriminate like Burning Tree do not take any tax breaks so they can continue to only accept certain people.

The smaller clubs that are farther out are much less expensive and usually don't even have a waiting list. Anyone who wants to join can. The ones closer in have first come, first serve waiting lists. [/quote]

That’s a bunch of BS.   Giant and even Walmart carry local vegetables not to mention your local Whole Foods.  60% of kids go to a pumpkin patch each October.  How many kids are part of families with country club memberships. Half a percent?  1%?  No one thinks subsidizing country clubs is a good idea...except country club owners and their lobbyists trying to shape public opinion on DCUM.[/quote]

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