Agriculture
CAGW Issues Spending Cut Alert: Dairy Subsidies
CAGW Issues Spending Cut Alert: Dairy Subsidies
A-Maize-ing Waste: Why Ethanol Subsidies Must Be Repealed
“I once was lost but now am found; Was blind, but now I see” the amazing waste in the ethanol subsidy program, admitted Vice President Al Gore. A November 27, 2010, Wall Street Journal article confirmed that the ethanol cheerleader and environmental...
CAGW SPENDING CUT ALERT: USDA ECONOMIC ACTION PROGRAM
For Immediate Release March 3, 2011
Rep. Flake’s Best Bad Earmark Pun of 2010: We Have a Winner!
For Immediate Release: January 7, 2011 Contact: Leslie K. Paige 202-467-5334
The “Razorback Subsidy” is a Whole Different Kind of Disaster for Taxpayers
President Obama needs to pass a bill, but a powerful chairwoman of a Senate committee, who is in danger of not being reelected, adds a controversial and expensive provision that puts passage in jeopardy. Conventional wisdom says that the White...
Government Broadband is too Broad
When Congress passed and the President signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), or the stimulus bill, in February 2009, $7.2 billion was allocated to expand broadband in the United States. Of that amount, $2.5 billion was slated to...
Pork Alert: Senate Agriculture Appropriations
For Immediate Release July 27, 2009
The RUS: A Fiscal Ruse
The so-called stimulus bill passed by Congress and signed by the President grows government so much it would even make FDR blush. There are countless expenditures included in the bill that have nothing to do with “fixing” the economy. One such...
