Posted On: July 24, 2007
I Want To Be A Farmer!
"Money for Nothing" is one of my favorite Dire Straits songs, so why wouldn't I want to become a farmer? Who wouldn't want to get paid for not planting crops, and made the subject of estate tax relief (even though nobody can actually find farmers who NEED estate tax relief). The latest farmer-related boondoggle was chronicled in Monday's Washington Post (here), and the first paragraph says it all:
The U.S. Department of Agriculture distributed $1.1 billion over seven years to the estates or companies of deceased farmers and routinely failed to conduct reviews required to ensure that the payments were properly made, according to a government report.
