> Are you concerned a proposed farm bill would spend $195 billion on farm subsidies over the next decade? How about $80.35 billion spent on food stamps last year? Would you be more or less concerned if it were $1.95 billion and $8 billion?
> Would you have any idea what these numbers mean?
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> .. Biden’s American Jobs Plan was lowered to a proposed $1.7 trillion over eight years,... #DeanBaker “. . .[It] is a bit less than 0.8 percent of GDP. It is just over a quarter of what the Pentagon is projected to spend over this period. On a per person basis, it comes to around $640 a year.”
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