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| Big Farms Reap Two Harvests With Subsidies a Bumper Crop Posted by Kat on 12/26/2004, 1:11pm | ||
| "Despite the fact that farm income has doubled in two years, federal subsidies have also gone up nearly 40 percent over the same period - projected at $15.7 billion this year, and $130 billion over the last nine years. And that bounty is drawing fire from people who say that at this moment of farm prosperity, the nation's subsidy system has never made less sense." | ||
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