2014’s new US Farm Bill eliminates many direct subsidies to farmers, while replacing them with subsidized insurance programs. This will lead to higher costs for taxpayers and distorted markets in the future.
Dick Clark
Dick Clark is a legislative staffer and attorney in private practice in Lincoln, Nebraska. He has previously served as a policy advisor to Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman, as Director of Research for the Platte Institute for Economic Research, and as GWR Research Director at the Institute for Economic Inquiry at Creighton University. He has offered testimony before the Appropriations, Business & Labor, Government, Health & Human Services, Judiciary, Revenue, and Urban Affairs committees of the Nebraska Legislature.
