Taxpayer Advocacy Group Names Rep. Collin Peterson ‘Porker of the Month’

Citizens Against Government Waste, a taxpayer advocacy group that came out strongly against the proposed $2.3 billion loan for the DM&E railroad, announced Thursday it was giving its “Porker of the Month” award to Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn. The issue, however, was not railroads but farm subsidies.

In a recent press release the CAGW wrote:

President Bush’s 2007 farm bill proposal would eliminate subsidy payments to individuals with an adjusted gross income of $200,000 or more. In truth, the proposal does not go far enough and leaves intact the overall payment limitation of $360,000, which should also be lowered. Even modest reform is too much for Rep. Peterson, who thinks agriculture would be “better off not having any payment limits at all