Comments on: Fatten us all with Farm Subsidies http://truecostblog.com/2007/05/25/fatten-us-all-with-farm-subsidies/ True Cost attempts to dissect current affairs through the lens of cost-benefit analysis Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:08:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: How to Balance the Federal Budget « True Cost – Analyzing our economy, government policy, and society through the lens of cost-benefit http://truecostblog.com/2007/05/25/fatten-us-all-with-farm-subsidies/#comment-864 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:18:51 +0000 http://truecost.wordpress.com/2007/05/25/fatten-us-all-with-farm-subsidies/#comment-864 [...] into law with automatic spending formulas. Farm subsidies in particular deserve heavy cuts, as they distort the economy while worsening Americans’ health. Eliminating commodity crop payment programs and crop insurance subsidies would save $15 Billion [...]

]]> By: Top Five Worst Subsidies « True Cost - Analyzing our economy, government policy, and society through the lens of cost-benefit http://truecostblog.com/2007/05/25/fatten-us-all-with-farm-subsidies/#comment-202 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:38:06 +0000 http://truecost.wordpress.com/2007/05/25/fatten-us-all-with-farm-subsidies/#comment-202 [...] year in subsidies, including direct payments, crop insurance, and agricultural marketing expenses, have fattened America, caused significant illegal immigration, and helped keep the world’s poor from picking [...]

]]> By: A Slow Motion Health Care Crisis « True Cost - in policy, economy, and society http://truecostblog.com/2007/05/25/fatten-us-all-with-farm-subsidies/#comment-121 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:25:49 +0000 http://truecost.wordpress.com/2007/05/25/fatten-us-all-with-farm-subsidies/#comment-121 [...] that is rewarded for treating the complications of diabetes, and not for the prevention of it. Farm subsidies also lower the price of corn and corn-syrup based foods, encouraging bad eating [...]

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