The House voted down the 2013 US Farm bill by 234 to 195. Hurrah. The Farm Bill is the purest kind of pork. It takes my tax money and hands it out to farmers, most of whom are big corporations. The suits bought out the family farmers long ago. What money doesn't go to corporations goes to funding Food Stamps. Preliminary news reports are sketchy, but it sounds like this was a $ 1 trillion dollars over ten years bill.
Don't celebrate just yet. There is a good chance the combination of farm state votes and urban food stamps votes will pass a continuing resolution to keep the current farm program spending alive.
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