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Farm Bill Is a Fraud

Farm Bill Is a Fraud

After the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management, widely known as the Farm Bill, failed to pass in the House of Representatives, there was a lot of finger pointing.

But the finger should be pointed at every Congress since 1933 — the year the Agricultural Adjustment Act was passed to help small farms with crop insurance, price supports, import barriers and other forms of aid to farmers who were earning barely enough to survive.

Unfortunately, like most government-administered programs, agricultural subsidies have ...

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