"Is A Farming Subsidy The Same Thing As Corporate Welfare?" Kleinheider

is it wrong – or, at any rate, hypocritical or “ideologically inconsistent,” if you will – for Republican candidate Stephen Fincher to take almost $300k in campaign contributions from farming families who have received an estimated $80M in farming subsidies from the federal government?

But, everybody else is doing it!
"Michelle Bachmann, Welfare Queen"

Bachmann isn’t the only welfare recipient on Capitol Hill. As it turns out, there is a filthy-rich class of absentee farmers—both in and out of Congress—who demand free-market rules by day and collect their government welfare checks in the mail at night, payments that subsidize businesses that otherwise would fail. Over the past couple of decades, welfare for the super-wealthy seems to be the only kind of welfare our society tolerates...
According to 11 years’ worth of Environmental Working Group data that tracks $200 billion in subsidies, the wealthiest 10 percent of “farmers” have collected 75 percent of the money. That’s exactly the kind of socialism that Rep. Bachmann and her elite ilk like.