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The Farm Bloc: And Your Food Dollar
Engler, Robert | September 19, 1953 issue

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Agriculture is increasingly a part of the industrial society of the U.S. and must be so viewed. The farm bloc is a coalition of agricultural organizations, responsive legislators, and other public officials whose concern is primarily for the dollars and the votes of the farmers and processors. Current high levels of production must be examined in the light of growing domestic and world needs before they are hastily labeled surplus. The public is penalized by high taxes and high prices. A rider to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) appropriation bill, upheld by a forty-five-to-thirty Senate vote, specifically prohibits the FTC from making any study to trace the consumer's food dollar.

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FOOD prices; AGRICULTURE; AGRICULTURAL prices; AGRICULTURAL productivity; TAXATION; UNITED States
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