{"id":40792,"date":"2011-10-23T15:46:02","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T15:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/end-to-taxpayer-subsidies-to-big-farmers-in-sight\/"},"modified":"2011-10-23T15:46:02","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T15:46:02","slug":"end-to-taxpayer-subsidies-to-big-farmers-in-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/end-to-taxpayer-subsidies-to-big-farmers-in-sight.php","title":{"rendered":"End to taxpayer subsidies to Big Farmers in sight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-pGhaPXuBkeE\/TqGPP2EdEFI\/AAAAAAAAWWQ\/c7l16Rm9zwY\/s1600\/TomCoburn_55.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/67a15_TomCoburn_55.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><em>Rather than taxing millionaires, the first thing we ought to do is quit giving them subsidies. -- Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn, Senate floor<\/em><\/p><p>From Eric Dondero:<\/p><p>It still has to pass the House, and gain the President's signature, but a major item on the Libertarian wish list has just passed the Senate.  <\/p><p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/federal-government\/senate-votes-for-gop-provision-ending-direct-payments-to-farmers-with-incomes-exceeding-1m\/2011\/10\/21\/gIQAH7LE2L_story.html\">WaPo<\/a>, \"Senate votes for GOP provision ending direct payments to farmers with incomes exceeding $1m\" Oct. 21:<\/p><blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-JH5Tzk09B4A\/TqGQGQXYwbI\/AAAAAAAAWWc\/_-D3dD-q9AE\/s1600\/farming-black-corporate-results.n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/67a15_farming-black-corporate-results.n.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>The Senate has voted to end direct payments to farmers whose annual incomes exceed $1million.<\/p><p>The 84-15 vote approving the provision by Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn came as the Senate worked into the early morning hours Friday on a vast spending bill.<\/p><p>Coburn argued that the government shouldn&rsquo;t be subsidizing the highest earning farmers at a time of deep budget deficits. The leaders of the Senate Agriculture Committee, who opposed Coburn, are working on legislation that could eliminate the entire $5 billion-a-year direct payment program for farmers.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/farmpolicy.com\/2011\/10\/21\/farm-bill-ag-economy-food-labels-trade-and-political-note\/\">FarmPolicy.com<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote><p>&ldquo;Coburn argued forcefully to his colleagues, who were seated at their desks for the series of rapid-fire votes, that such payments from a government that is running in the red were preposterous.<\/p><p>&lsquo;We had 2,705 people in this country who had adjusted gross incomes in excess of $2.5 million last year who got farm payments,&rsquo; said Coburn.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>The primary opposition to Coburn's legislation came from Michigan Democrat Senator and Chair of the Senate Agricultural Comm. Debbie Stabenow.<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/67a15_7828681836623105417-5008000143277679512?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rather than taxing millionaires, the first thing we ought to do is quit giving them subsidies. -- Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn, Senate floorFrom Eric Dondero:It still has to pass the House, and gain the President's signature, but a major item &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/end-to-taxpayer-subsidies-to-big-farmers-in-sight.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}