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The Rich and Powerful Likely to Get Richer

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Corn and politics. The jokes write themselvesThe government likes to give farmers money. Lots and lots of money. And, even though the average household income for farmers is higher than for non-farmers, Congress would like to give them some of everyone’s tax dollars to help them out despite their record profits. In fact, because farmers are making so much money outside of government assistance, Congress had to come up with a whole new system to do continue paying them!

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