The Rich and Powerful Likely to Get Richer [All Is Right With The World]

Published: November 13, 2007, 4:58 pm

Tags: all is right with the world, farm bill, lobbying, stupid ways to spend money

The government likes to give farmers money. Lots and lots of money. And, even though the average household income for farmers is higher than for non-farmers, Congress would like to give them some of everyone’s tax dollars to help them out despite their record profits. In fact, because farmers are making so much money outside of government assistance, Congress had to come up with a whole new system to do continue paying them!Currently, farmers can pick and choose from a menu of subsidies based on everything from what they grow or how much they want to stop growing “for the environment” and everything in between — but the big money is in grains, as opposed to fruits and veggies (not that our government is promoting us eating more veggies or anything). Unfortunately for farmers, prices for grains have been so high for so long that the rules Congress wrote in 2002 for farmers to qualify for payments might leave out a lot of farmers in the next few years because

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