The Government Accountability Office took a look at the federal government crop insurance program and the result isn’t pretty. We effectively waste $1 billion a year providing corporate welfare to very large agribusiness operations. From the GAO: If a limit of $40,000 had been applied to individual farmers’ crop insurance premium subsidies, as it is [...]
Federal Crop Insurance Wastes a Billion Dollars on Corporate Welfare |
| By: Jon Walker Thursday April 12, 2012 11:19 am |



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