Monday morning roundup

I don't usually get infuriated first thing in the morning, unless I discover cat poop outside the litter box... but this morning I discovered bullshit in the Metro section of the Post. All I had to do was read the caption on the photo associated with this article:

Robert Hilton, 77, raises corn-fed beef at Dusty Hill Farm near Damascus. Like many in the rural pocket of Montgomery County, he is frustrated with the performance of politicians in Washington and Rockville. "All they know how to do is tax, tax, tax and more, more, more," Hilton says.

Can anyone tell me what two parts of that quote conflict? That's right, the complaints about taxes and the phrase "raises corn-fed beef." [Breathe]. It's not like taxes have anything to do with corn-fed beef. It's not like that corn is very heavily subsidized. In other words, it's not like that farmer benefits from government "handouts" that are funded by taxes. Your taxes. And it's not like your taxes aren't paying to clean up the run-off from that farm and the others in the article. Maybe some politician, somewhere, will have the anatomy to connect taxes to revenues to outlays to agricultural subsidies? Maybe?

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