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Cruz is right on this issue. I do wish that Trump and Cruz would lay off each other. One of them is going to be the candidate and I want them in good shape.
I totally disagree with Trump on this issue.
But the only issue that I am voting on is immigration.
That is the only issue that matters
Trump: If you like Corporate Welfare for the Chamber of Crony Capitalists, Vote for ME!
Not with you on this one, Donald. Pork is pork and is the sign of a fattened government.
Populist Demagogue (Trump) vs Principled Conservative (Cruz)
It’s becoming clear now.
It’s a Mandate to require use of Ethanol, not a Subsidy.
Don’t agree with Mandates, but this is a non issue. There is NO Congress that will get rid of the Ethanol Mandate in Fuel.
As I said before, Republican Senator Chuck Grassley is the King of Ethanol and his successor, Democrat or Republican will follow in that tradition.
Trump needs to get on board with Cruz on ethanol subsidies. They’re costing all of us billions. Eliminate them, let the free market sort it out.
Government subsidies and mandates for ethanol destroy liberty and distort economic signals. They also have the effect of tying the price of food to the substitution price of hydrocarbons from oil. In a time when the federal government is printing or borrowing over 40% of the money it spends, a balanced budget can only be achieved by cutting every possible subsidy.
From what I have seen, Trump has only come out in favor of ethanol. Nowhere has he actually stated that he supports mandates and subsidies specifically...or am I mistaken?
As an alternative, instead of offering agribusiness huge subsidies to produce ethanol, how about offering them a free market, a brand *new* free market, using marginal land instead of their high quality farmland, to make them billions of dollars?
This means to open the floodgates to legal hemp production.
In its first few years of full production, hemp might generate between $3-12 billion dollars to the economy, for products to include paper, textiles, oil, high quality animal fodder, and many other products. It would also employ one or two hundred thousand Americans.
I'm sold. Cruz now has my vote.
Yes, constitutionally low-information Trump is wrong about ethanol subsidies and Harvard Law School-indoctrinated Cruz is right. But it is too bad that Cruz evidently cannot substantiate his stance against ethanol with the following excerpts from Supreme Court case decisions by previous generations of pro-state sovereignty justices.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress. [emphases added]” - Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited. None to regulate agricultural production is given, and therefore legislation by Congress for that purpose is forbidden [emphasis added].” - United States v. Butler, 1936.
Corn, used for ethanol production is a crop.....the field is plowed and planted using gasoline or diesel powered tractors.....fertilizer is spread with the same tractors, pest control agents the same way, or at best, by gasoline powered aircraft. Harvesting equipment again use the same tractors and the trucks which haul the corn to the cribs are diesel powered.I assume that the equipment used to grind the corn and turn it into ethanol are powered by electricity which is usually generated by burning coal. The ethanol is then hauled, by a diesel powered truck or by diesel powered train, to a refinery where it is mixed with gasoline by using electric powered equipment.....
somewhere in there, someone has decided that there is some benefit....I don't see it.....and it consumes billions of taxpayers dollars.
We should not be subsidizing the burning of food.
What really bugs me is that the “outrageous” things that people talk about - he didn’t even say! But stuff like this should INFURIATE any conservative or green lefty. Yet, no one cares. It’s all a big show.
Remember that old MST3K? “They just didn’t care!” That’s Presidential politics for the past twenty years.
Shut up, Donald. You’re burning big bridges here
I agree with Cruz on farm welfare and the theft of the food supply.