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<text id=91TT0772>
<title>
Apr. 08, 1991: A Bumper Crop Of Loopholes
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Apr. 08, 1991 The Simple Life
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
GRAPEVINE, Page 21
A Bumper Crop Of Loopholes
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<p>By David Ellis/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
</p>
<p> What do you give the farmer who has everything? How about
a copy of the Lawyer's Guide to Payment Limitations, a $20 book
for farmers (and their financial advisers) who want to bone up
on ways to skirt the law that limited agricultural subsidies to
$250,000 a person. A brochure for the 195-page opus boasts that
it "contains annotated text, checklists, and sample pleadings"
to help haymakers boost their government-supported income.
</p>
<p> The guidebook was published by the University of Arkansas'
National Center for Agricultural Law Research and Information,
a distinguished institution, to be sure. In fact, it receives
nearly all its funding--more than $1.8 million since 1988--from guess who. Yup, the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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</body></article>
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