Stossel: Departments Grow and Cherries Rot
July 25, 2017
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as posted by the channelJohn Stossel investigates what government agencies actually do and finds out that your tax money goes to ridiculous things.
The Agriculture Department actually forces farmers to dump cherries on the ground so you pay higher prices at the supermarket.
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President Trump wanted to cut the budgets for many government departments – like the Commerce Department and the Agriculture Department. But Congress increased spending on the very departments Trump wanted to cut.
Departments that almost nobody knows what they even do.
John Stossel investigates and finds a ton of waste. The departments blow your money on welfare for the rich, global warming hype, and destructive regulations.
Ed Stringham, President of the American Institute for Economic Research, tells Stossel about how the Agriculture Department even forced one farmer to dump cherries on the ground and let them rot. The government wanted to keep the price of cherries higher, which helps some cherry farmers.
Stossel agrees with founding father Robert Morris, who once said, “for heaven’s sake, what is meant by a [government] chamber of commerce?”
Produced by Maxim Lott. Edited by Josh Swain.
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