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On the recordMay 31, 2012
Farm subsidies, in my view, they are like a reverse Robin Hood program. They take from average taxpayers and give to high-income farm households.
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Chuck Edwards
Republican · North Dakota

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Edwards criticizes farm subsidies as benefiting wealthy farmers at the expense of taxpayers.

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