Volume XVIII No. 35: August 29, 2013
As kids head back to school, teachers are crossing their fingers hoping they won’t have to spend hours re-teaching factoids forgotten over summer break. When Congress returns from their six week hiatus on Sept 9, we too are praying they haven’t forgotten an important lesson from the past year—a crisis for farm bill lobbyists isn’t a crisis for farm country.
Going on three years now, apologists for massive federal spending on agriculture have been trying to pass a trillion dollar farm bill. From trying to stuff a backroom brokered bill through the Super Committee, to spinning tales of $8 milk, to underhanded bait and switch tactics (like jamming a subsidy-laden farm bill through the House of Representatives in under 24 hours), they’ve tried every trick in the book to pass a farm bill that squanders savings and creates new income entitlement programs.
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