Farm Subsidies
Nobody Can Win
The United States senate is about to pass a bill for $171 billions dollars on farm subsides. Most people just think that is that farm subsidies are designed to help struggling family farmers make ends meet. In reality, current farm policy only helps two out of every three farm subsidy dollars to the top 10 percent of subsidy recipients, while completely shutting 60 % of farmers out of subsidy programs. The ceilings that are in place on most farm subsidy programs are rarely enforced by Congress or the Department of Agriculture, and contain several loopholes allowing the largest farms and agribusinesses to bypass these limits. The results is a system charging taxpayers billions of dollars for subsidizing the largest farms, who then use these funds to buy out small farms and consolidate the agriculture industry. Far from remedying this problem, the House-passed Farm Security Act of 2001 and Senate?s Agriculture Conservation and Rural Enhancement both increase subsidies and further forwarded them to large farms and agribusinesses.
Farm subsidy limits do exist ? in theory. The 1996 Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act included ceilings on the amount of farm subsidies an individual can
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