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Six Reasons to Kill Farm Subsidies and Trade Barriers
reason.com — America's agricultural policies have remained fundamentally unchanged for nearly three-quarters of a century. The U.S. government continues to subsidize the production of rice, milk, sugar, cotton, peanuts, tobacco, and other commodities, while restricting imports to maintain artificially high domestic prices.
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- CaptainAmerica1, on 05/01/2008, -1/+3Freakin' amazing...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/ ... - davidmesaaz, on 05/01/2008, -0/+487 percent of all subsidies are paid to those who make over 1 million dollars per year.
- InRussetShadows, on 05/03/2008, -0/+4Yeah, the dirty little secret of farm subsidies -- known well only out West -- is that the little guy gets nothing, and ConAgra gets most of it. The Great Plains literally is the breadbasket of the world and there's plenty of need for food. Want to see the independent farmers propser? How about we stop funding their competition?
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