the farm bill: corrupt to the core, and oh yeah, fuck you Debbie Stabenow, you piece of shit.

[geek tragedy]

5. If milk cost $10 a gallon, would that hurt the poor or the rich more?

I would wager that increasing the price of milk by $7/gallon would be the economic equivalent of a benefits cut, except it would hurt a lot more people besides SNAP recipients--especially those with children.


The bill is not what I would have preferred, and I'm not even 100% sure I would vote for this without a few more cuts to the welfare checks handed out to Big Ag, but we live in a world in which the Republicans control the House now and will control it next Congress, and in which the Democrats will lose seats in the Senate and perhaps the entire Senate for the next Congress. Question is what the path towards a better alternative looks like, or whether it exists.