Tom Harkin actually said...

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.

Context

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

06/11/2007

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