date:Nov 19, 2012
ers, ranging from outright taxes to incentives for slaughtering cows. In 2002, Congress embarked on a manipulative system whereby the government artificially inflates milk prices by purchasing and warehousing items such as cheese and butter. It also concocted the Milk Income Loss Contract program, which pays dairy farmers directly every time the price of milk falls below what the government believes the market will bear in Boston, Massachusetts (!). According to the Congressional Research Servic