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Article: Eating into the deficit: efforts to slash farm subsidies will be a bellwether for budget balancers. (The GOP Agenda)
- Article from:
- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- March 6, 1995
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Every five years, with a timing that coincides remarkably well with the expiration of that multibillion-dollar package of fine print known as the farm bill, a rugged character from America's mythical past makes his reappearance on the national stage. The family farmer_steward of the soil, bringer of nutritious yet bargain-priced bounties, courageous foe of devious foreign traders_all he seeks is a fair price for his honest toil. What, after all, is 1 percent of the federal budget when weighed against the salt of the earth?
This year, apparently, plenty. As work begins on the 1995 farm bill, the family farmer is being upstaged by a more insistent character on the ...