Posted on May 14th, 2013 by William Christian
“The farmers love this bill, The farmers love this bill, High, HIGH, the dairies go, The farmers love this bill!” While it’s a tortured version of the original, the verse scribbled above represents a more fitting rendition of the classic nursery rhyme these days, given ongoing congressional action. Today, the Senate will markup its version (S. [...]
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Posted on March 29th, 2013 by Tom Schatz
There are more than enough egregious examples of mismanagement and inefficiency to create “Government Waste TV.” Unfortunately, no such network exists. The next best option would be a ”Daily Waste” segment on a major network. While such programming has also not yet been created on a permanent basis, between Monday, March 25 and Friday, March 29, Fox News Channel went where no network [...]
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Posted on March 27th, 2013 by William Christian
“Sugar, Sugar” was the Number One single of 1969. The Archies, a fictional band comprised of comic book characters, rode the bubblegum hit to even greater fame than they already enjoyed on Saturday morning television. So, given the ageless nature of these cartoon crooners, I wonder if they could be conjured up today to sing [...]
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Posted on March 15th, 2013 by Tom Schatz
For many years, Big Sugar has claimed that the government’s sugar program operates at no cost to taxpayers. Citizens Against Government Waste and other opponents of the program have consistently objected to that claim, pointing out that while the sugar processors pay into the program, there is a cost to taxpayers through the bureaucracy that is necessary [...]
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Posted on October 2nd, 2012 by CAGW Staff
The Daily Waste will examine how eliminating grants to manufacturers of worsted wool can save money for the taxpayers. In the early 2000s, a variety of changes to trade laws subjected domestic producers of worsted wool to increased competition. Consequently, Congress gave the Department of Commerce $5 million in annual subsidies to wool manufacturers that [...]
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Posted on September 21st, 2012 by CAGW Staff
Programs designed to support the peanut industry have existed in some form since the early 1900s. Originally, peanuts were subsidized with a production quota; only those who owned or leased production quotas from the government were allowed to produce. These quotas drove the cost of peanuts to nearly twice the world price and were very [...]
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Posted on September 20th, 2012 by CAGW Staff
Using a combination of price supports, marketing controls, and import quotas, the federal government establishes a minimum price for sugar in the United States, which averages roughly double the world price. The government also imposes marketing controls, limiting how much sugar processors are allowed to sell. These allotments are enforced and administered by a small [...]
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Posted on September 13th, 2012 by CAGW Staff
Today, the Daily Waste takes aim at the Rural Utilities Service and the money that can be saved. The Rural Electrification Administration (REA) was established in 1935 to bring electricity to America’s rural communities. Areas that lack basic utilities have virtually ceased to exist in America, but the REA lives on, re-labeled as the Rural [...]
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Posted on September 12th, 2012 by CAGW Staff
The U.S. dairy market is a complex tangle of subsidies and price supports. Through a series of federal Milk Marketing Orders, which are based historically on the distance from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, where the milk is produced, the government sets minimum prices that producers must pay for Grade A milk. These vary from region to [...]
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Posted on September 11th, 2012 by CAGW Staff
In light of the recent drought that his plagued farmers for much of 2012, the Daily Waste will examine a way to rid taxpayers of wasteful spending. The United States’ ethanol program includes tax credits for ethanol blenders, tariffs against foreign ethanol importers, and a Renewable Fuel Standard that creates an artificial market for the [...]
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