Farm Bill Continues to be Generous to Wealthy Farmers
17th February 2011
Money flows to those who can afford to buy Congressmen make campaign contributions.
But the amendments are likely to be killed, if not in the House then in the Senate, on the grounds that such changes are “complex” and should be addressed in the next farm bill, due to be negotiated in 2012. The subtext of the message, especially in the Senate, will really be “Get lost; the amendments’ deficit impacts are negligible and, as usual, we don’t want to take any grief from the major farm organizations whose leaderships disproportionately consists of large-scale farm operators and whose members have a regrettable habit of voting.”