Article: Deficit Hysteria Versus Food System Reform

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Why deficit hysteria isn’t good for food-system reform (Grist)
by Tom Philpott

EXCERPT: Within a year, Congress and the White House will begin negotiating the next Farm Bill, that monstrously complex piece of legislation that dominates our farm and food policy. Both sides will do so amid a generalized zeal to slash budget deficits. The new Republican majority in the House swept into power in a wave of deficit hysteria (their own, that is; it turns out politicians and pundits are much more deficit-fixated than the broad public).