According to the CATO Institute
“The largest portion of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s budget consists of food subsidies, not farm subsidies. Food subsidies will cost taxpayers $79 billion in fiscal 2009 and account for about two-thirds of USDA’s budget. The largest food subsidy programs are food stamps; the school breakfast and lunch programs; and the women, infants, and children (WIC) program. The federal government as a whole has about 26 food and nutrition programs operated by six different agencies”
Cut all of that crap too. One hundred percent of it. Cut it!
Thank you Josh for posting about the food subsidies, not farm subsidies in the Ag budget.
Two-thirds of the budget is not about farmers, but about food stamps, free lunch, etc. And nothing is free; it’s your tax dollars.
So who does the Dept. of Agriculture benefit most?
Thanks for the information, joshhiggins. US Border Patrol might also come out of that budget. That is one area we definitely need.
(rethinking Ag cuts...perhaps put CBP into Defense)