Subsidies for the Manhattan farmers
Posted on August 30th, 2007 by bile Categories and Tags: Uncategorized, Bush administration, federal government, food, Manhattan, nanny state, New York, Park Avenue, politics, subsidieshttp://corner.nationalreview.com/…
The red dots indicate people who live in Manhattan but receive agricultural subsidies from the federal government. The larger red blobs mark people receiving more than a quarter of a million dollars in farm subsidies annually.
The farm bill passed by House Democrats in July would continue giving millionaires farm subsidies (setting the income threshold for payments at $1 million a year, and keeping loopholes in place that allow some making much more to qualify). The Bush administration has proposed sharply reducing the income threshold to $200,000 a year and ending many of those loopholes. That would reduce the number of subsidy recipients by less than 40,000 (of the current million or so recipients)—though I suppose it might put some rooftop gardens on Park Avenue out of commission.
Does much need to be said about this? When is the government going to stop this 70 y/o policy of paying people not to farm.
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