Agri-scam; Wasteful farm subsidy system cries out for reform.(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)

Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA) | July 25, 2007 | Copyright

COLUMN: IN OUR OPINION

It's no secret that federal agricultural tax breaks and subsidies, conceived as compassionate aid to family farms, long ago devolved into a system of corporate welfare for agribusiness, big tobacco, sugar-beet growers, absentee gentleman farmers and a myriad of other interests. A new federal audit shows the situation is even worse than most Americans might have imagined.

As the House prepares to debate the agriculture appropriation bill, a Government Accountability Office audit of subsidies, requested by the Senate Finance Committee, ...

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