Posted on 02/25/2008 5:08:27 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Ping!
That’s ok... McCain supports increasing US ethanol production, which will fix global warming, which will save us all!
Uhh, wait a minute...
Won’t be long, now, before we’ll have to have family meetings to decide whether to spend our life savings on a gallon of gas or a loaf of bread......
Funny how that works: with a weak U.S. dollar and global demand so high, U.S. producers can't ship American grain quickly enough. Oh, heck, we're all gonna starve.
—With a weak U.S. dollar and global demand so high,—
Duh! The answer is keep the grain at home; restrict exports. That will help drop the price of grain (and milk and eggs) at home. The ag lobby won’t like that, but tough darts.
farmers won't much like it either.
—farmers won’t much like it either.—
six of one ...
What do you think happens when the government artificially depresses prices for a commodity? How do the producers react?
Duh. And what explicit numerated power in the US Constitution allows the US government to do that? Answer: there is none. And don’t give me bs about the commerce power. Ditto for export restrictions on a number of other items. It just doesn’t exist. So many conservatives say they support the Constitution, but they really don’t.
If they pull the same crap they pulled back in 1973 like slaughtering calves and chicks before they went to market, then their arses should be tossed in jail.
You’re going to have to explain why you think one form of intervention is bad, and the other good.
The necessary and proper clause (also known as the elastic clause, the basket clause, the coefficient clause, and the sweeping clause. This clause is a loophole big enough to drive a Hummer through, which is probably why the Framers put it in the Constitution in the first place.
—Youre going to have to explain why you think one form of intervention is bad, and the other good.—
Allowing prices to go up because greedy speculators are shipping it overseas to non-Americans is not intervention, it is NON-intervention (letting a house burn down is non-intervention, putting the fire out before it does too much damage is intervention).
What do you think happens when the government artificially boost prices for a commodity, i.e., farm subsidies? The USG has been subsidizing farmers for a long time. It has never been a free market.
Da, comrade. The kulaks are enemies of the State.
Why are you asking me? I’m honestly curious.
Hey, I know. Let’s tax American workers and use the money to subsidize unprofitable ethanol plants, and then charge them more for food and energy, and tax the margin (of course)!
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