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Max Baucus

Estate Tax Deadlock Could Hit Hard On Family Farms

With Republicans pushing to all but eliminate the current estate tax, and the President fighting to return to 2009 rates, a lack of bipartisan consensus in Congress could result in something neither side wants: A massive rate hike on some of America’s traditional family-owned farms.

2012/12/12

File photo of a cow on a farm. (Photo by Joern Pollex/Getty Images)

EPA Can’t Regulate Livestock Farms It Can’t Find

The report to Congress was blunt: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had failed to regulate pollution from the nation’s livestock farms — many capable of generating more waste than some cities — because it lacked information as basic as how many farms even existed.

2012/08/02

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