Yesterday, the big news was EWG’s new farm subsidy database, and rightfully so. Yet again we were reminded of the vital need for strong, effective farm program payment limitations. And fairly predictably, I put up a long and sarcastic post about the King of Farm Programs, Maurice Wilder. When you’re trying to write a blog, it’s a lot easier to be angry and sarcastic, let me tell you.

The release of a new database from the Environmental Working Group is causing a firestorm of media attention around unlimited farm program payouts made to some of the nation's richest individuals. Should these people be pulling down unlimited government payouts that they can then use to to drive up land costs and drive their small and mid-sized neighbors out of business? No, of course not.