Bachmann Both Opposes and Receives Farm Subsidies

“If it looks like a government handout, [Rep. Michele] Bachmann has opposed it,” writes Karl Bremer in a guest post at Eric Black Ink. “But when it comes to collecting her own government assistance checks, that’s another story.”

Poring over Bachmann’s financial disclosures, he discovered that while Bachmann voted on July 27 against the farm bill, her husband’s family has collected more than $125,000 in government subsidies between 2001 and 2005 for their 949-acre farm in Independence, Wis. — and some of it, the records show, ended up her pockets (although we don’t know how much; Bachmann wouldn’t answer any questions).

Bachmann has done nothing illegal, Bremer points out, but “it does raise questions about the sincerity of Bachmann’s belief in smaller government and her opposition to entitlement programs when she partakes in them herself.”