Farmers across India are refusing to part with their land. Tata had to shift their Nano plant from Singur in Bengal, Posco's steel plant in Orissa has been delayed by 5 years while in Gorakhpur,UP a proposed nuclear power plant hangs in the air. In UP farmers are demanding ten times the offer price for the building of a highway. Bleeding hearts support the framers pointing to the rise in prices after a project is completed, with billions of rupees of tax payers money, which is totally false. Once a project, say a highway, is completed land prices alongside the road rocket because residential townships, factories and malls are built to take advantage of improved transport. Farmers in India are a protected breed getting billions of rupees in handouts every year. Farm income is totally exempt from income tax. Farmers are given loans by public sector banks at reduced interest rates and even these loans are forgiven before an election. The government buys wheat, rice, sugarcane and other produce at a price higher than the market rate under what is known as the ' minimum support price.' In between crops farmers can earn Rs. 100 a day under the NREGA scheme. These are only a few of the handouts that I know of. There could be hundreds of such schemes whereby they are stealing our taxes. And they have no responsibility towards the country. They continue to breed like rabbits and expect taxpayers to provide for exponentially growing numbers. On the other hand they have been cheated in the past when land was acquired under the Land Acquisition Act of 1894 passed by the British to loot Indians. Anyway no one trusts criminal politicians and thieving uncivil servants and therein lies the nub.