{"id":2991,"date":"2007-12-12T07:22:31","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T15:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/12\/the_horrible_truth_about_stone_barns.html"},"modified":"2007-12-12T07:22:31","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T15:22:31","slug":"the_horrible_tr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/12\/the_horrible_tr.html","title":{"rendered":"The Horrible Truth About Stone Barns . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . is that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/12122007\/news\/regionalnews\/rich_harvest_734457.htm\">it&#8217;s all about the tax break<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Super-rich New York city slickers are harvesting big checks from government programs originally set up to save poor family farmers during the Great Depression.<\/p>\n<p>Among the dozens of billionaire sod-busters on both Forbes magazine&#8217;s rich list and the federal farm welfare rolls is banker and philanthropist David Rockefeller Sr., who reaped $29,615 from the corn-subsidy program in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Rockefeller, worth an estimated $2.6 billion, got the government money for farms in Westchester and Columbia counties, according to a database compiled by the Environmental Working Group lobbying organization.<\/p>\n<p>Through a spokesman, Rockefeller, 92, said he&#8217;s unlikely to take any more of the money &#8212; and that he believes the system needs reform.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Location Scout: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/outoftown\/hudsonvalley\/westchestercounty\/stonebarns\/index.htm\">Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . is that it&#8217;s all about the tax break: Super-rich New York city slickers are harvesting big checks from government programs originally set up to save poor family farmers during the Great Depression. Among the dozens of billionaire sod-busters on both Forbes magazine&#8217;s rich list and the federal farm welfare rolls is banker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class_war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}