Trying to stoke fears that the middle class in America is dying, progressives recently have taken to distributing a chart showing household debt rising steadily over the past fifty years. The Atlantic’s Megan McArdle has been doing a fine job putting these worries in perspective. But a front page story …
Tweet this Where do food stamps come from? They come from taxpayers—certainly not from family farms. Yet the “farm” bill, a recurring subsidy-fest in Congress, is actually 80 percent food stamps and other government nutrition programs. The food stamps sweeten the farm deal for lawmakers, who admit that the combination …
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