Breaking: Details Leaking Out on Secret Farm Bill

The Congressional Super Committee was created to make tough budget choices, but the leaders of the Ag Committees appear to be going in the opposite direction with more lavish subsidy giveaways to mega farms. EWG has new details about the secret farm bill that have started leaking out today.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Martha-Hall/100000647150854 Martha Hall

    Family farms will suffer if this goes through. Read about this. Support our regional farmers – NE TN

  • Anonymous

    Congress has been fixated on targeting the wealthiest farmers with the most cash and with the largest investment and profit guarantees for a long time. This is just another case of crony capitalism as the wealthy receipients have been quick to send cash back to elect their congressman fixated on reelection. This safety net entitlement attitude has nearly destroyed many rural communities since it has resulted in legislation guaranteeing a huge and perpetual prosperity for the wealthiest farmers and impossible competition for most smaller farmers and those with no income guarantees. It is hard to know how a more discriminatory program could be designed. The huge disparity in incomes guaranteed by this program have effectively kneecapped the smaller farmers ability to compete for agricultural land. It really should not be that hard to understand, those that have a greater income guaranteed have a government granted competitive advantage over those who have a smaller government guaranteed income or no guaranteed income. It is not to surprising that those involved in such a despicable act of legislation have to resort to such covert and underhanded means to pursue these massive transfers of monetary wealth to the largest farmers. It is obvious to me that the Senate ag committee can not be trusted to dispurse ag government benefits in an equitable manner. Farm safety nets that guarantee multi-million dollar investments and profits as well are an example of unequal distribution of government business benefits. Smaller farmers are being denied by government an equal opportunity to compete in agriculture due to the overwhelming competitive financial edge these guarantees give to those with the greatest probability of the greatest profits. Safety nets that cover land costs are in fact profit guarantees as many farmers have their land paid for and with the doubling of many commodity prices these guarantees provide for a whole lot more than real estate taxes

  • http://twitter.com/ASPB ASPB

    Supercommittee failure = end to the secret farm bill. Check out a leaked copy of the bill here.