Serious Arithmetic Problems at the Washington Post

Two commenters on my previous post on a NYT oped, which asserted that one-fifth of the federal budget went to farm subsidies pointed out the error can be partly attributed to a linked article in the Washington Post. (The actual figure is less than 0.5 percent.)

That piece includes the sentence:

"At close to $1 trillion a year, the farm bill’s price tag is high."

Incredibly, the next sentence directly contradicts this assertion correctly pointing out that:

"But the bill’s drafters used the bas...