AAQ: Republicans have their own “free stuff” in terms of corporate welfare. Hundreds of billions in crop price supports for mega agricultural corporate giants (only a small fraction goes to “family farmers”), tax incentives and rebates for building football stadiums etc. etc. In many cases the agriculture bill is a symbiotic deal between increasing appropriations for food stamps in return for greater farm subsidies. The budget deals typically “trade” dollar for dollar increases in defense spending for so called “discretionary” spending. Everyone can say yes but non one can (or more correctly is willing) to csy no.
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