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Originally Posted by Bill8
well, the interesting question is, how much of the total of agricultural subsidies did the republicans try to cut from the budget?
Anybody know?
Depending on what you call subsidies, the feds subsidize between 8 to as high as 35 billion for agriculture. About 8 bil for direct subsidies, the rest in insurance and support and disaster relief and the like.
How much of that did the republicans cut, or try to cut?
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ZERO. Are you crazy Republicans, have a caucus in Iowa in less than 10 months. Only an idiot would start talking about cutting farming subsidies. Anyone NOT wanting to get the GOP nomination would talk about doing away with those.
Here's the facts. No one's pork is pork. It's everyone else's pork is pork and needs to be cut. So guess what no one's pork gets cut.