Forget new secretary - just shut it down

President Bush just appointed a new Secretary of Agriculture. Instead, he should have just shut down the department. Destroy it, George. It's anti-freedom, and it makes our food so much more expensive.

A 1993 article in the New York Times "termed the U.S. farm subsidy program “hopelessly outdated, exorbitantly expensive and environmentally and socially devastating.” Far from “saving the family farmer,” they price American produce out of world markets, hurt low income families, and swamp the farmer with endless regulations. “A whopping 73 cents of every farm program dollar,” Davidson noted, “ends up in the pockets of 15 percent of the nation's superfarms.”

Nothing's changed in 14 years. Americans are taxed and the money is given to large agricultural conglomerates. You're taxed so you're food is more expensive. Read the rest of this still relevant article that was printed in The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty.