THE Economist reported recently that the Government Accountability Office of the United States paid over US$3mil in subsidies to 2,300 farms where no crops of any sort were grown.
It was a neat racket. Uncle Sam paid farmers for all the wheat they did not grow and they used the money to buy more land to increase the amount of wheat they did not grow for which they would be paid more money that they did not really earn.
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