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Harvesting tax dollars. (Correction, Please!).(farm subsidies)(Brief Article)
ITEM: "Federal farm subsidies," contended the Houston Chronicle for January 2nd, "are supposed to help family farmers keep their heads above water so they can stay on their land."
ITEM: Wisconsin's Green Bay Press-Gazette for January 7th reported: "A Washington, D.C., environmental group has raised hackles in the farming community by publicizing information farmers are used to considering private."
CORRECTION: Spilling these beans is a public service, since taxpayers continue to pony up $20 billion annually in farm subsidies. The Environmental Working Group's website (www.ewg.com) posted figures obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, which show who is getting the subsidies.
Two out of three subsidy dollars don't go to small farmers. Rather, Congress has been handing agricultural subsidies to Chevron, John Hancock Financial Services, CNN founder Ted Turner, Sam Donaldson of ABC News, and former Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee.
Commodity subsidies rise as prices ...
- Farm Subsidies May Get the Ax In Coming Year
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Sharon LaFraniere December 5, 1994 700+ words
...the possibility of abolishing farm subsidies next year, opening what is shaping...concede that the rationale for farm subsidies should be debated. The programs...supermarket, rather than with tax dollars. In his letter, Lugar mentions...
- NICKLES TO INTRODUCE LIMIT TO FOREIGN FARM SUBSIDIES
- Newspaper article from: The Journal Record DAVID TIPTON May 23, 1987 700+ words
...officials involved in the World Bank oppose the use of U.S. tax dollars to subsidize foreign agriculture producers who compete with...products. "It is unconscionable for our government to be using tax dollars to subsidize foreign farmers and ranchers, especially when...
- End farm subsidies.
- Newspaper article from: The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Fla.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) December 6, 2005 700+ words
...gouging, Third World-punishing farm subsidies. The latest round of world trade talks...long as those countries keep paying farm subsidies. In the absence of action from the...Trade Organization to chip away at farm subsidies. This year the WTO ruled, in response...
- Du Pont says farm subsidies milk consumers, taxpayers. (Pete du Pont)
- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 6, 1987 700+ words
DU PONT SAYS FARM SUBSIDIES MILK CONSUMERS, TAXPAYERS ELKHART...candidate Pete du Pont said today farm subsidies are milking American consumers...taxpayers paid $26 billion in farm subsidies and consumers paid another $5...
- In defense of farm subsidies.(LETTERS)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times March 6, 2003 700+ words
...prospering if only the West did away with farm subsidies. Of course, the recent famines in...needs to be recognized is that Western farm subsidies have flooded the world with cheap food...nothing critics of the West that farm subsidies contribute to poverty in the Third...
- Americans Oppose Most Farm Subsidies.
- Newspaper article from: Food Business Week May 7, 2009 700+ words
...Obama administration has sought to cut farm subsidies for next year's budget they have...states, would favor eliminating most farm subsidies. Eighty percent of U.S. subsidies...that receive the largest amount of farm subsidies, just 35 percent of the public favors...
- Battle looms on farm subsidies.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) October 10, 2005 700+ words
...trade talks that have bogged down over farm subsidies. In a speech to a lobbyist group last...shown little appetite for meddling with farm subsidies, 92 percent of which go to so-called...and food stamp programs while leaving farm subsidies relatively intact. 'There's a disconnect...
- U.S. should set the pace for free trade by ending most farm subsidies.
- Newspaper article from: The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Fla.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) December 29, 2005 700+ words
...agree on a plan for curtailing most farm subsidies, and for eliminating tariffs and other...deadline for those goals. Cutting farm subsidies is essential to the objective of the...explains their demand for an end to farm subsidies before they open up their markets to...
Source: HighBeam Research, Harvesting tax dollars. (Correction, Please!).(farm subsidies)(Brief...