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Article: Just when we thought federal agricultural policy couldn't get any worse, the Senate Ag Committee passed a farm bill that preserves old bad policies and creates a few new ones.(The Week ...)(Senate Agriculture Committee)(Brief article)
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- Article date:
- November 19, 2007
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Just when we thought federal agricultural policy couldn't get any worse, the Senate Ag Committee passed a farm bill that preserves old bad policies and creates a few new ones. The Senate bill extends for five more years the massive subsidies (around $20 billion a year) that farmers receive, often whether they grow anything or not. Chief among the new bad ideas is a five-year, $5.1 billion "permanent disaster relief trust fund," sponsored by senators from a few drought-plagued states ...