The Rachel Maddow Show- The Senate version of the farm bill, passed yesterday, cuts money for food stamps by $4 billion over the next decade. That sounds like a lot, until you see the House version calling for cuts five times that size -- with no cuts in subsidies for big agriculture. The House bill is needlessly, almost comically, cruel, and for no particular reason except to move wealth from the poor to the rich.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 13:06:27 +0000
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