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Congressional Issues 2006
DOMESTIC CHAOS,

GOVERNMENT STYLE
Agriculture



The 108th Congress should
  • reauthorize the Federal Agricultural Improvement and Reform (FAIR) Act of 1996 (known as the "Freedom to Farm Act"), replacing deficiency payments with a fixed schedule of decreasing payments that reach zero in 2008;
  • eliminate government crop insurance programs;
  • reduce greatly the per farm subsidy cap as a first step to control the excesses of federal agriculture subsidies;

  • repeal the new crop price supports included in the 2002 farm law, which are unnecessary add-ons to existing subsidy mechanisms;

  • phase out other crop subsidies, a process that began under the 1996 Freedom to Farm Act;

  • move toward a system of private insurance and use of other financial instruments to protect farmers against market and weather fluctuations; and

  • eliminate federal controls that perpetuate producer cartels in markets such as those for milk and sugar.



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