by Jane Richey | Jun 21, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
The House is debating its farm bill this week—and now Democrats are saying it doesn’t spend enough on food stamps. The “farm” bill, which isn’t how we picture farms at all, is actually 80 percent food stamps. Don’t forget that the food stamp program has doubled under...
by Jane Richey | May 21, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Where do food stamps come from? They come from taxpayers—certainly not from family farms. Yet the “farm” bill, a recurring subsidy-fest in Congress, is actually 80 percent food stamps and other government nutrition programs. The food stamps sweeten the farm deal for...
by Jane Richey | May 10, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The chairman of the House Agriculture Committee unveiled a new farm bill Friday that he said would reduce spending by $39.7 billion over the next decade compared to existing legislation. The deeper deficit cuts endorsed by Chairman Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) are sure to...
by Jane Richey | Jun 25, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
As the House debates the once-every-five-years farm bill, the majority of which goes to food stamps, there is a renewed and fervent call from a broad spectrum of camps that the information — some of the most high-dollar, frequently requested and closely held secrets...
by Jane Richey | Jun 21, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
The Senate passed a farm bill Thursday that will cost nearly $1 trillion, with more than three-fourths of the expenditures going to food stamps. Couldn’t our lawmakers dial it back a bit? Apparently not. Should the bill become law — it still must pass the House...