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Michigan law requires that voters periodically renew school taxes, but when the district last year asked them to reap-prove a five-mill property tax and an additional five-mill tax, the voters, including a large number of blacks, balked...
...Rural Environmental Assistance Program, a durable piece of pork barrel that distributes $225 million a year among all 50 states. So successful were the lobbyists' initial efforts that the House Agriculture Committee quickly reported out a bill that would require the President to spend the money appropriated for REAP...
Helping the farmers is an unlikely ally: the National Limestone Institute. Although only 4% of the industry's output is purchased by farmers, Lobbyist Robert Koch is putting up a 100% fight to save REAP. The institute has sent out 15,000 protest letters to various policymakers as well as to county agents and farmers...
Four Presidents-Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon-have asked Congress to reduce REAP appropriations. But as the only Agriculture Department program that distributes money (some $8 billion since 1936) in all 3,060 U.S. farm counties, REAP has vocal farmer-defenders in every state. Businessmen who sell to farmers also benefit-and speak up politically. Robert Koch, president of the National Limestone Institute, mutters darkly that if REAP is killed, "our land will get worn out and go the way of India and China." The pro-REAP coalition has managed to get new money voted for REAP every year...
President Nixon, who voted against the program as a Representative and Senator, is now trying to kill REAP altogether. Three days before Christmas, with only $5,000,000 of the fiscal 1973 appropriation contracted out, he simply ordered the Agriculture Department not to spend the remaining $220 million. His action has stirred a whirlwind of resentment among some Representatives and Senators who are determined to see Congress retain its power over the national purse strings. Several bills that aim at forcing Nixon to spend the REAP money have been introduced. Says one of the sponsors, Iowa Republican Congressman William Scherle...