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"Right wing extremists" against Farm Bill...

hypocritexposer

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...for same reasons OT is against Farm bill. :???:


http://lee.enews.senate.gov//mail/util.cfm?gpiv=2100112675.230172.7&gen=1

This was the year we might have added an asset test, to make sure wealthy Americans with large personal bank accounts were no longer eligible for Food Stamps.

Not only did the Conference Committee fail to reform programs subsidizing agriculture businesses, the Conference Committee removed many of the few improvements the House and Senate tried to include in the first place.

For instance, the Senate bill, for all its faults, included a novel provision to limit farm subsidies to actual farmers.

The Senate bill was also going to phase out crop insurance subsidies for wealthy individuals with an annual income of more than $750,000. Farmers who make three-quarters-of-a-million dollars a year, after all, should not need taxpayer assistance to keep their farms afloat.

The House bill included a transparency reform requiring members of Congress to disclose any subsidies they receive under the crop-insurance programs.

Yet all of the above reforms mysteriously disappeared from the final legislation.
 
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