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“It took roughly 200 years to accumulate the first $1 trillion. Now we add that in a matter of months.”—
Producers in Fisher and Stonewall counties collected a combined $36 million in federal farm subsidies in a single recent year. Fourteen rural Texas hospitals have closed in the last decade, with 82 more at risk. The federal government sends Texas $281 million a year for rural health care. And every dollar of it flows from a budget that runs on borrowed money.That tension is at the heart ...
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