Farm Bill #2: Unlikely allies

Politics makes strange bedfellows, as documented by Politico in a report on the coalition of unlikely allies working to reform the farm bill.

Let me start with my favorite: The American Enterprise Institute (AEI), not exactly a bastion of radical thought.  The AEI puts out a series of thoughtful position papers, remarkable for their clarity, on a range of farm bill issues: Agriculture in Disarray.

To date, 6 have been published.

• Reforming the farm bill: an overview
• Covering losses
• Reforming agricultural insurance
• Farm policy and trade
• International food aid
• The future of SNAP

You may not agree with these American Boondoggle viewpoints, but you will have a good chance of understanding what the arguments are about.