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Tom Harkin: “Quite frankly, this is a bad use of taxpayers' dollars. It's inefficient. It hurts smaller farmers. We could use money…”

On the recordJune 11, 2007
Quite frankly, this is a bad use of taxpayers' dollars. It's inefficient. It hurts smaller farmers. We could use money to go out to help young farmers get started in agriculture.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Senator Harkin criticizes the inefficiency of federal farm subsidies and suggests reallocating funds to support young farmers.

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