Michele Bachmann's Farm

From the comments:

Just a couple of questions. Michele says that the farmers are "geniuses". Didn't I hear that Michele is "a farmer"? Does she include herself as a genius?

I wonder about Michele Bachmann's farm. What does she grow? How can she run a farm while being in Washington? Does she really have a farm?

The reason I ask is that if Michele has a farm wouldn't some of you nice MIchele snipers have tried to figure out if the farm is taking any government subsidy money? Wouldn't it be delicious if somebody discovered that Michele set up a farm when she discovered as a tax lawyer that she could suck up a pile of taxpayer's dollars with a phoney farm?

I didn't discover Michele until last year. Some of you have been opposing her since before 2006. Surely the "Old McBachamnn has a farm" question has been picked apart by now. I've just never heard if she refuses government money or if she's a hyupocrite.
C.M.

Karl Bremer wrote about Michele Bachmann's Farm Subsidies here.

Michele Bachmann has done nothing illegal by collecting federal farm subsidies. The establishment of a limited partnership for a farming operation no doubt is to reduce her tax liability—i.e., a tax shelter. And it conveniently keeps Michele’s own name out of the farm subsidy database.

Indeed, in a recent local media investigation about urban recipients of farm subsidies, Bachmann’s name wasn’t even mentioned.

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.

Is the Stillwater congresswoman the kind of “farmer” that most Minnesotans think should be collecting subsidy checks? After all, Bachmann, with a $165,200 a year Congressional salary, recently described families earning $83,000 a year in Minnesota as “rich.”

Or is she just another wealthy “urban farmer” milking the federal system who would, were it not for her anti-government Republican credentials, provoke outrage and indignation among right-wing think tanks and radio jocks?

You be the judge.

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