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The Growing Farm Subsidy Boondoggle

Federal farm subsidies have kept growing from occasional disaster relief into a sprawling system of commodity supports, crop insurance, sugar protection, and bailouts. With the backdrop of the Farm Bill, Cato’s Ryan Bourne, Chris Edwards, and Clark Packard discuss who really benefits, why reform never sticks, and how tariffs hurt farmers that Congress then subsidize.

Featuring
Ryan Bourne

R. Evan Scharf Chair for the Public Understanding of Economics, Cato Institute

Chris Edwards

Kilts Family Chair in Fiscal Studies, Cato Institute and Editor, Down​siz​ing​Gov​ern​ment​.org

Clark Packard

Research Fellow, Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute