{"id":2944,"date":"2007-06-25T20:50:53","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T20:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2944"},"modified":"2007-06-25T20:50:53","modified_gmt":"2007-06-25T20:50:53","slug":"eliminate_agric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2944","title":{"rendered":"Eliminate Agriculture Subsidies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/06\/22\/business\/22farm.html?ex=1340164800&#038;en=aed745c5a1b5ab83&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">Andrew Martin<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Mr. Kind, a six-term congressman, has introduced legislation that would drastically reduce farm subsidies while pouring more money into land conservation programs and rural development. He gathered 200 votes for a similar bill in 2002 and says he believes he has additional momentum this time around.<br \/>\n\u201cThere are so many reasons to do it,\u201d Mr. Kind said, ticking off high crop prices and increasing pressure from foreign trading partners as two reasons to curb subsidies. \u201cNow we are going to see if this Congress has the stomach for meaningful reform.\u201d<br \/>\nTo no one\u2019s surprise, Mr. Kind\u2019s crusade has raised the hackles of the powerful farm lobby and its supporters in Congress, who describe his proposal as na\u00efve, ill conceived and even dangerous.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Martin: Mr. Kind, a six-term congressman, has introduced legislation that would drastically reduce farm subsidies while pouring more money into land conservation programs and rural development. He gathered 200 votes for a similar bill in 2002 and says he believes he has additional momentum this time around. \u201cThere are so many reasons to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,6,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}