It is hard to find information sometimes, you can spend days running around just to find out the information you need was there all along you just didn't ask the right question,
It's like a game they play, I think they like to see how long they can make you chase your tail before they give you the information you need.
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Farm Subsidies: What's the deal with Farm Subsidies? How much does the government spend on them, who gets the money, and why? Are we seriously considering eliminating them? Should we? Can we?
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AskQuestions.org - Farm Subsidies
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EWG FARM BILL 2007
POLICY ANALYSIS DATABASE
What's new in this database?
The lists of top subsidy beneficiaries have changed dramatically. Just about every ranking of subsidy payments has changed in this new database because, for the first time, USDA has tracked subsidy benefits as they pass through tens of thousands of farm business entities—agribusiness cooperatives, partnerships, joint ventures and corporations—and has assigned virtually all farm subsidy 'benefits' to individuals. The Farm Bill 2007 Policy Analysis Database bases all of its rankings and analyses on this new benefits tracking data.
Specifically, some 358,057 individuals now have a dollar value for subsidy benefits associated with their names for the first time in our system—and they received $9.8 billion in crop subsidy benefits alone between 2003 and 2005. In the database, those individuals have a double asterisk after their name, indicating that all of their subsidy benefits were in the form of pass-through(s) from a farm business(es) in which they had an ownership interest. A single asterisk means both payments made directly and pass-through subsidies are attributed to the individual by USDA. Listings with no asterisk are for individuals or entities that received all of their subsidy directly from USDA.
The most important distinction we make in our analysis is between subsidies paid to farm businesses and subsidy benefits passed through those businesses to individuals (and, very occasionally, to other types of entities). You can see the distinction on pages like these.
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EWG || Farm Subsidy Database
