Sunday, January 19, 2014

How is this any different from the Mafia?--------------Millions in farm subsidies flow freely to DC residents who don't actually farm

Millions in farm subsidies flow freely to DC residents who don't actually farm | WashingtonExaminer.com:
"Washington, D.C., doesn't have many farms, or farmers.
Yet thousands of residents in and around the nation's capital receive millions of dollars every year in federal farm subsidies, including working-class residents in Southeast, wealthy lobbyists on K Street and well-connected lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
In neighboring Chevy Chase, Md., one of the nation's wealthiest communities, lawyers, lobbyists and at least one psychologist collected nearly $342,000 in taxpayer farm subsidies between 2008 and 2011, according to the watchdog group Open the Books."

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