Farmers To Earn Highest Profits In 40 Years With Taxpayer Help

Farmers To Earn Highest Profits In 40 Years With Taxpayer Help

A Depression-era program intended to save American farmers from ruin has grown into a 21st-century crutch enabling affluent growers and financial institutions to thrive at taxpayer expense.

Federal crop insurance encourages farmers to gamble on risky plantings in a program that has been marred by fraud and that illustrates why government spending is so difficult to control.

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