Economic Progress

ICYMI: How Agriculture Subsidies are Hurting Farmers, Taxpayers

December 12, 2016

In an op-ed for The Hill, Alison Acosta Winters, managing director of research and policy at Stand Together Trust, discusses how removing agricultural subsidies should be a priority for Congress:

“If America is really serious about “draining the swamp” in Washington, then removing harmful policies and rent-seeking behaviors upon which corporate welfare and cronyism are built should be a high priority for Congress. Such policies include the numerous, costly subsidy programs that go toward agriculture.”

Read the full op-ed at The Hill