Today, the Cost of Government Center and ATR sent a letter to the House of Representatives urging Congress to reject supply management programs in the next Farm Bill. In part, our letter read:

Any agriculture package should seek to reform and eliminate arbitrary price controls and subsidies that increase government intervention into dairy markets. Importantly, the next Farm Bill should reject the Dairy Market Stabilization Program (DMSP), a harmful quota program that was proposed during the last Congress.

The DMSP is the poster child for big government intervention. It places controls on both the supply and demand for milk, increasing costs for taxpayers who are both footing the bill for these harmful policies and getting hit with higher dairy prices at the store.

United States dairy policy is a morass of regulation and subsidies, harming consumers and businesses alike. You can learn more about the web of disastrous programs at YourMilkMoney.org. To read the rest of our letter, click here.