Blog Post
May 23, 2013
In a new blog post, our friend Daren Bakst at the Heritage Foundation argues against returning to the Reagan administration policy of linking federally subsidized crop insurance to conservation compliance measures. Bakst argues that denying federal crop insurance subsidies to farmers who drain wetlands and cultivate sensitive lands without plans to stop erosion is bad [...]
Blog Post
May 22, 2013
I wrote earlier this month about the record high losses taxpayers incurred due to the 2012 drought, highlighting an excellent study by Bruce Babcock that showed how premium subsidies encourage farmers to buy more expensive policies and cost taxpayers $6 billion more than was necessary. But there’s actually some good news on the Farm Bill [...]
News Release
May 20, 2013
WASHINGTON (May 20, 2013) -– R Street Institute Senior Fellow Andrew Moylan will join representatives of the Cato Institute, Environmental Working Group and Taxpayers for Common Sense for a discussion hosted by Cato on ways to reduce the economic and environmental costs of the 2013 Farm Bill. Differing versions of the nearly $1 trillion legislation [...]
Op Ed
The Blaze • May 17, 2013
Imagine a market where the government controls both the price of goods and how much producers can sell, and where excess goods are bought up by the government and steered toward government-favored industries and away from consumers. Think you’d have to go back in time to the Soviet Union to find such a program? Or [...]
Blog Post
May 15, 2013
Watch live streaming video from heritagefoundation at livestream.com Watch R Street Senior Fellow Andrew Moylan with Heritage’s own Daren Bakst on the $1 trillion abomination that is the Farm Bill. photo by: Bistrosavage
Media Mention
Rep. Tom Petri • May 15, 2013
From Rep. Tom Petri: “As the largest subsidy to farmers, crop insurance is in dire need of reforms to make the program more targeted and accountable to taxpayers,” said Andrew Moylan, Senior Fellow with the R Street Institute. “The AFFIRM Act does exactly that by establishing a modest payment limit and means test, by reducing [...]
Policy Brief
May 15, 2013
May 15, 2013 Dear Representative, The undersigned organizations urge you to support the Assisting Family Farmers through Insurance Reform Measures (AFFIRM) Act recently introduced by Representatives Ron Kind (D-WI) and Tom Petri (R-WI). The AFFIRM Act would help rein in the spiraling cost of the federal crop insurance program, which has quickly become the most [...]
Media Mention
Christian Post • May 15, 2013
From the Christian Post: With the House bill at $940 billion and the Senate version costing $955 billion, “there is certainly not another single bill that Congress will pass this year that spends that kind of money,” Andrew Moylan, outreach director and senior fellow at the R Street Institute, told The Christian Post on Tuesday. [...]
Policy Brief
May 14, 2013
Washington’s Farm Policy is a nearly trillion dollar tangle of agriculture subsidies, welfare payments and environmental patronage. There is tremendous need for reform. Current subsidy programs are rooted in the 1930s, when prices for crops and livestock bottomed out and farm families were desperate for income. Agriculture today could not be more different. Farmers are [...]
Media Mention
PropertyCasualty360 • May 14, 2013
From PropertyCasualty360: R.J. Lehmann, a senior fellow at the R Street Institute, a conservative think tank, says the House Farm Bill is even more generous than the Senate version. He says, according to projections from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the House bill would increase federal spending on crop insurance by $8.91 billion over the [...]
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