NYT Tells Readers That Subsidies to Dead Farmers Account for Almost 0.0001 Percent of the Federal Budget

Now you know why your tax bill is so high. I'm not kidding, the NYT had a news article highlighting a study by the Government Accountability Office that found over the four and half years from October 2007 to April of 2012, $10.6 million was paid in subsidies to farmers who were dead. Using CEPR's really cool budget calculator it was possible to quickly determine that this number was less than 0.0001 percent of federal spending over this period. (Okay, I cheated. I treated the current year's...