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Tea Party Hero Joe Miller Accepted Farm Subsidies
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JUNEAU, Alaska (Sept. 22) - Alaska Republican U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller, who believes the federal government is on the brink of bankruptcy and has called for an end to the "welfare state," received federal farm subsidies for land that the fiscal conservative owned in Kansas in the 1990s. The acknowledgment by the Miller campaign that he accepted farm subsidies follows a story by the Alaska Dispatch, which discovered through a Freedom of Information Act request that he got $7,235 in subsidies from the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1991-97. It drew a sharp response from critics, ...
Michele Bachmann's Farm Received Over $250,000 in Federal Subsidies
By David Sessions - Politics DailyMinnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann has made herself a prominent face in the Republican Party in 2009, delivering incendiary speeches at Tea Party protests against taxes, bailouts, and other forms of government intervention. Last week, she hosted a rally in Washington against health care reform, which she opposes as a "government takeover." But according to a report by the liberal political Web site Truthdig, Bachmann is not so vociferous about her distaste for "socialized" industry when it comes to her family farm in Minnesota, which accepted over a quarter of a million dollars in federal ...
Subsidies Grow Bigger Down on the Farm
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyAmidst rising prices and record profits, Congress is set to pass a new round of subsidies and special protections for some of the largest corporations and richest people in the country worth close to $300 billion. But it is not a new energy bill loaded with tax breaks for oil companies, it's a new five-year Farm Bill containing direct payments and price supports for farmers who in many cases have seen their incomes skyrocket in recent years. The bill extends or increases many of the programs enacted in the 2002 version; but this time the White House is threatening a veto.President Bush ...
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