Remember Scotty Pippen, the former NBA star? He was also a farmer. That’s right, a real hayseed, who was so good at it that the federal government paid him $130,000 over a five-year period not to grow crops.

I was able to report that fact back in 2002 because of the work of the Environmental Working Group (EWG) in posting on its web site a massive database of federal farm subsidy recipients maintained by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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