Why taxpayers pay for farmers’ insurance   3 comments

Link: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/08/14/158787593/episode-394-why-taxpayers-pay-for-farmers-insurance

Summary: Discussion of why the U.S. government subsidizes crop insurance for farmers.

Original air date:  August 14, 2012

Length: 16:17

Posted August 20, 2012 by audioecon in Government, Planet Money, Politics & economics, subsidy, Trade

Tagged with

3 responses to “Why taxpayers pay for farmers’ insurance”

Subscribe to comments with RSS.

  1. This is a controversial issue. If we pay for the unemployed why shouldn’t we back the working people.

    Reply
    insuranceftw
    September 18, 2012 at 11:28 am

  2. Pingback: Linking podcasts to Mankiw, N.G., Principles of Microeconomics | audioecon

  3. Pingback: Linking podcasts to Parkin, Microeconomics | audioecon

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

%d bloggers like this: