The Bloomberg administration says those subsidies would cost too much.

The White House said such subsidies would cost the Government $116 billion over the first seven years of the program.

According to the campaign, in all these subsidies would cost about $110 billion across a decade.

The subsidies on wheat, sugar and cooking oil, however, cost the country around $6 billion a year.

In the 1980's, crop subsidies cost the Treasury $133.5 billion.

This means that the subsidies, which absorbed one-sixth of government spending in 2005, will cost even more.

The subsidy has survived, thanks to Congress, and now costs the Treasury about $600 million a year.

In Beijing, subsidies for meat, eggs and similar products cost $181 million last year.

They estimate that the subsidies and the new tax deduction would cost the Federal Government $246 billion over five years.

The subsidies could cost more than $200 million a year, the Air Force report said.