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2015-03-20 Government

Those farm subsidies? Yeah, a lot of the money went to billionaires

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Posted by DarthVader 2015-03-20 12:33|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Gotta payback the people that paid to put you in office after all.

Little wonder the Iowa GOP went to the mat to keep this going.

Posted by DarthVader 2015-03-20 12:35|| 2015-03-20 12:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Welfare state for landowners is as big as the one for the feckless.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2015-03-20 12:56|| 2015-03-20 12:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Subsidies tend to go to farm states who happen to be in an important position in the primaries. Its been dirty for a long time. We hear stories about poor family farmers when they are a small segment of the agroindustry.

I don't think there has ever been a subsidy that didn't become corrupt. The question is, how long does it take on average.

Posted by rjschwarz 2015-03-20 14:41|| 2015-03-20 14:41|| Front Page Top

#4 rjs, it takes as long as the time to cash the first check.

Posted by AlanC 2015-03-20 16:08|| 2015-03-20 16:08|| Front Page Top

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