Question: Why is there a National Cotton Council but no National Anti-Cotton Council?
After all, as you may or, more likely, may not know, the federal government subsidizes cotton growers to the tune of almost $2 billion a year (the average from 1995 to 2011). Unless you happen to be a cotton grower, you can probably imagine better uses for those federal dollars. Yet the cotton program, a New Deal vestige, goes on. And on.
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