A trillion-dollar, pork-filled farm bill
stuffed with corporate welfare passed the House last week and cleared the Senate on
Tuesday -- thanks in part to a little-noticed maneuver by the bipartisan
leadership in both chambers. Liberals, conservatives, libertarians and
conservationists all opposed the farm bill on many policy grounds:
The bill perpetuates the federal sugar
program. Arguably Washington's least defensible corporate welfare boondoggle,
the sugar program keeps out foreign sugar, hiking prices for consumers, killing
jobs for candy makers and enriching a few politically connected sugar
producers. The farm bill replaces a flawed program of direct payments to
farmers with a potentially more wasteful program of subsidized crop insurance,
which takes money from taxpayers and gives it to banks and farming businesses…..To Read More….
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