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Our trading partners are pressuring us to reduce our farm subsidies, and record-high crop prices make it a good time to act.(The Week)(Brief article)
Our trading partners are pressuring us to reduce our farm subsidies, and record-high crop prices make it a good time to act. So President Bush has proposed cutting farm subsidies by as much as $4.5 billion over the next ten years. It is a welcome proposal. But we've been down this road many times before. Funding levels are (sometimes) reduced during the good ...
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