Old Farmer's Day

"Taxpayers are told subsidies help small, struggling family farmers -- but that couldn't be further from the truth," says Don Carr of the Environmental Working Group, which calculated that the wealthiest 10% of American farmers receive roughly 74% of subsidies. "We need transparency." But transparency has been trimmed, right along with the USDA's budget: The agency deemed its centralized database of subsidy recipients too expensive to maintain, at $6.7 million, though it doled out $15.4 billion last year in subsidies and the database enabled watchdogs like the EWG to weed out undeserving recipients. On the range, they might deem that penny wise and pound foolish. -- AC

Tue, October 12
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Old Farmer's Day

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