Summary
Yet in America, our congressmen enact a 742-page farm bill that, among other things, includes 10 times more money than in 2002 for "specialty crops," including citrus, tomatoes, and melons, and an amendment to include goat meat in the mandatory Country of Origin Labeling Program. [...] how absurd is this? "After handing out commodity subsidies that pay farmers to plant more crops," Heritage Foundation senior fellow Bruce Riedl notes, "Washington then turns around and pays other farmers not to farm 40 million acres of cropland each year-the equivalent of idling every farm in Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana and Ohio."
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Dead Men Farming
By now you've probably heard that a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report states:
From 1999 through 2005, the USDA "paid $1.1 billion in farm payments in the names of 172,801 dec...See the full content of this document
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