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My fellow blogger and former FreedomWorks intern Matt Hittle has a good piece on ag subsidies in his school’s newspaper.

The subsidy program has strayed from its original intent. Rather than aiding needy farmers, the government helps those who need it least: subsidies are paid according to acreage, so large farms and agribusinesses reap the benefits. In fact, the largest 10 percent of farms received more than 70 percent of subsidy money in recent years.

As I wrote in an earlier post, when Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani agreed on supporting wasteful ag subsidies, it made me a bit disappointed. In case their campaigns need a refresher course on the waste and fraud in the farm program, they need only consult Matt’s column.

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