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- <text id=91TT0772>
- <title>
- Apr. 08, 1991: A Bumper Crop Of Loopholes
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Apr. 08, 1991 The Simple Life
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 21
- A Bumper Crop Of Loopholes
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- <p>By David Ellis/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
- </p>
- <p> What do you give the farmer who has everything? How about
- a copy of the Lawyer's Guide to Payment Limitations, a $20 book
- for farmers (and their financial advisers) who want to bone up
- on ways to skirt the law that limited agricultural subsidies to
- $250,000 a person. A brochure for the 195-page opus boasts that
- it "contains annotated text, checklists, and sample pleadings"
- to help haymakers boost their government-supported income.
- </p>
- <p> The guidebook was published by the University of Arkansas'
- National Center for Agricultural Law Research and Information,
- a distinguished institution, to be sure. In fact, it receives
- nearly all its funding--more than $1.8 million since 1988--from guess who. Yup, the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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