I thought I saw an article here yesterday saying that Walker told the Iowa farmers, “Sorry, but I no longer can support the ethanol subsidy,” or words to that effect.
I’m not a great Scott Walker fan, but I suspect that this article may be full of lies. It wouldn’t surprise me if the author is a Bush supporter.
You remain unsurprised. As an aside, it was Ted Cruz who told the Iowa farmers that the ethanol subsidy was a bad idea.
Corn-based ethanol has driven UP the price of corn to such a degree, that without the subsidy, the corn-based ethanol would not be economically feasible for use as a motor fuel. A side effect of that was to also make the price of simple staple foods in Mexico, like corn-flour tortillas, so expensive that the peasants are flocking north to get into the US, and sending their children on ahead as “anchors”.
I still believe in Scott Walker, and hail his courage in making Wisconsin into a “right to work” state. The unions are going to have to start making their pitch to potential members on the basis of what the members would choose, not on coercion and threats, both implied and physical.