“Corn farmers are having a rare period of prosperity, and the federal government is getting a break. In 2006, Uncle Sam gave corn farmers $8.8 billion in subsidies. Thanks to high corn prices, subsidies are expected to drop to $2.1 billion in 2007. ”

See, when farmers plant more, subsidies go down. And then there’s the financial stimuli to local economies, etc Tax revenues coming in, makes this a sound investment. Beats giving subsidies to Big OIl who don’t give anything back to us, offshore their accounts and have no allegiance to anyone but the bottom line.

So one can never be too clear where the NYTimes gets its numbers.