With Big Ag, corn growers have become so powerful that their support is considered needed to win rural support to gain elected office in the Midwest. Conspicuous patronizing of a single industry is bipartisan, with both major parties going to great (often silly) lengths to defend what the nonpartisan Taxpayers for Common Sense says is indefensibly “throwing good money after bad.”
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