Late last week, the House of Representatives voted to accept the budget resolution passed by the U.S. Senate, which provides for tax reform and would allow federal revenues to fall short of the current 10-year baseline by as much as $1.5 trillion. It is a far different provision than the original House budget resolution that called for any tax reform to be budget neutral and instructed the House Ways and Means Committee to come up with $52 billion in deficit reduction or approximately 25 percent of the total budget savings included in the budget blueprint. Further, the original House budget called for 10-year spending cuts in agricultural programs of $10 billion as a means toward deficit reduction and paying for tax reform. The Senate plan...