Comments on: Farmers Clean Up (Again) http://www.washingtonhotlist.com/farmers-clean-up-again/ Politics 2.0 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:50:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Joshua Rosenstock http://www.washingtonhotlist.com/farmers-clean-up-again/comment-page-1/#comment-30985 Joshua Rosenstock Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:25:28 +0000 http://www.washingtonhotlist.com/farmers-clean-up-again/#comment-30985 Sue, This is yet another case of a special interest (in this case, the farm lobby) extending its undue financial influence over members of Congress in exchange for favorable legislation. Without real campaign finance reform and term limits, this cycle of legal bribery will continue in perpetuity. Thank you for the resource on this abuse of taxpayer dollars. Sue,

This is yet another case of a special interest (in this case, the farm lobby) extending its undue financial influence over members of Congress in exchange for favorable legislation.

Without real campaign finance reform and term limits, this cycle of legal bribery will continue in perpetuity. Thank you for the resource on this abuse of taxpayer dollars.

]]> By: Sue Foster http://www.washingtonhotlist.com/farmers-clean-up-again/comment-page-1/#comment-30976 Sue Foster Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:03:57 +0000 http://www.washingtonhotlist.com/farmers-clean-up-again/#comment-30976 The corporate AG welfare is insane! You've got payments heading to Manhattan, payments in the heart of Dallas and DC. Payments to dead farmers, payments to Monsanto and Dow chemical. I don't want my tax dollars paying Tyson so it can raise chickens cheap. I don't want my tax dollars going to Monsanto and it's genetic monstrosities. The USDA has been so taken over by big corporate AG that it's no longer a farming organization. It's all about strangling and snuffing out the small farms that practice sustainable AG. The subsidies should be limited. If a person or business is making a million a year he shouldn't be getting a free gift of our tax dollars. http://farm.ewg.org/sites/farmbill2007/ You can follow some of the money here. It's incredible. The corporate AG welfare is insane! You’ve got payments heading to Manhattan, payments in the heart of Dallas and DC. Payments to dead farmers, payments to Monsanto and Dow chemical. I don’t want my tax dollars paying Tyson so it can raise chickens cheap. I don’t want my tax dollars going to Monsanto and it’s genetic monstrosities. The USDA has been so taken over by big corporate AG that it’s no longer a farming organization. It’s all about strangling and snuffing out the small farms that practice sustainable AG. The subsidies should be limited. If a person or business is making a million a year he shouldn’t be getting a free gift of our tax dollars.

http://farm.ewg.org/sites/farmbill2007/

You can follow some of the money here. It’s incredible.

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