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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: greenspirit who wrote (131129)3/10/2001 5:06:04 PM
From: Ish  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
<<We subsidize the tobacco industry primarily because of Democratic politicians. >>

You notice that with all the government suits against the tobacco companies not one word was mentioned about cutting tobacco subsidies?

I was down at Lake Cumberland and got talking to a waitress about the red soil. She said she lived on 5 acres that was worth $5,000 per acre and her neighbors had 5 acres worth $300 per acre. The difference? She lived on a registered tobacco farm. Each spring the state would give them tobacco plants to plant and the feds paid them to plow them down. Your tax $$ at work.
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