1. Congress and the White House agree on the need to help, including government subsidies for premiums. 2. Free market reforms included cutting subsidies for farmers, eliminating government-subsidized fertilizer and easy credit through special rural banks. 3. He explains his agriculture policy, which includes subsidies to farmers, decentralizing federal agriculture agencies and transferring many of their responsibilities and their budgets to the states. 4. He said he will be ready in the next budget cycle to take more of a bite out of so-called corporate-welfare programs, including agriculture subsidies. 5. His plan includes federal subsidies for millions of low-income families, pregnant women, children and others. 6. Many lawmakers want to include health insurance subsidies in legislation to revive the economy, which is now moving through Congress. 7. Rabin also stripped almost all settlements of special economic status as development areas, which gave settlers various economic benefits including subsidies for housing and education. 8. Reflecting this view, the advocates of a stimulus package pushed last fall to include subsidies that would permit states and cities to keep up their spending. 9. Republicans have proposed wide-ranging changes, including eliminating most federal farm programs, including subsidies. 10. The House bill includes a subsidy for nuclear power and a similar amendment will be offered in the Senate. |