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"Farm subsidies constitute 0.55 percent of the federal budget. Meanwhile, Medicare and Medicaid constitute a whopping 21 percent of the federal budget. You all should therefore be roughly 40 times madder at healthcare waste than farm subsidy waste."

--reason.com commenter "Duke," in response to "Farm Subsidies Must Die" (April)

"I think [Rand Paul] has a chance of winning the nomination if the GOV establishment becomes convinced that they can't win with an establishment candidate. The Democrats, it should be said, came to that conclusion when Obama was running the first time. They backed Obama over Hillary because he had come out against the Iraq War at the time, but Hillary supported it. When the Democrats needed someone who'd...

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