最后一段明确表明作者的态度:This is what makes Bush's decision to increase farm subsidies last month all the more depressing./Bush's handout last month makes a lie of America's commitment to those talks and his personal devotion to free trade.选项C最为贴切。
US farm subsidies: A new deal grown oldByMartin Hutchinson
The sweeping bill would cost the federal government about 96 billion US dollars a year, and about 80 percent of the money would go to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps. Among the most significant changes to farm subsidies in the new farm bill ...
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1 crop. Uncle Sam is doling out $8.6 billion this year as part of a new seven-year program to ease farmers off federal subsidies. Growers get a fixed amount regardless of market conditions. Farm profits will total $51 billion this year, up 46 percent from 1995, the US Department of ...
Farms developed earliest and to the greatest degree in the USA and countries with a similar historical development of capitalism in agriculture, such as Canada, Australia, and New Zealand; in these countries agriculture arose as the result of colonization of both free land and land seized from th...
Free trade: a major factor in U.S. farm income 来自 EconPapers 喜欢 0 阅读量: 17 作者: CB Luttrell 摘要: No abstract is available for this item. 关键词: products and commodities, agricultural subsidies, exports, farms, Production control, Trade restrictions 年份: 1977 ...
By 2002, US policy makers were resistant to lower domestic supports in exchange for additional markets or lower export subsidies. Furthermore, by this time, other countries perceived the United States as a major source of distortion in the world markets. Developing countries were also threatening ...
The 2014 Farm Bill ushered in some significant and surprising changes. One of these was that it rendered the identity of all the recipients of farm subsidies secret. Representative Larry Combest, who is now a lobbyist for agribusiness, first introduced a secrecy provision into the bill in 2000...
most subsidies linked to specific farm products are, at last, to be broken-- the idea is to replace these with a direct payment to farmers, unconnected to particular products. support prices for several key products, including milk and butter, are to be cut--that should mean european prices...