Six Reasons Why Fiscal Conservatives (and Every American) Should Hate the Farm Bill

The budget-busting farm bill headed to the House floor next week is bad news for taxpayers. Here’s why this bill, officially H.R. 1947, shouldn’t pass. 

This bill would:

• Send crop insurance subsidies soaring to nearly $100 billion over the next decade. 
• Fail to limit insurance subsidies so the largest farm businesses would continue to collect the lion's share. 
• Increases price guarantees so close to market prices that even a small decline in crop prices would trigger billions of dollars in government spending.
• Extend direct payments for cotton farmers for two more years at a cost of nearly $1 billion. 
• Conceal the names of subsidy recipients, among them, members of Congress.
• Weaken the long-standing conservation compact.

Read the full Ag Mag post here.

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