Here is a great article by Dr. Wayne Brough, discussing the implications of the Farm Bill. Click Here. Just a taste of the article: Farm policies in the United States continue to distort markets through government interventions that benefit farmers at the expense of consumers. Despite rhetoric to the contrary and the sentimentality of saving [...]
It seems like $300,000,000,000 is the magic number these days in Washington. First Congress wanted to allocate $300billion for a mortgage bailout, and now they want allocate another $300billion of YOUR money to subsidizing farmers and a variety of other state pet-projects. Even though President Bush had promised a veto on this legislation, the House [...]