Its not a complicated issue. Ease the regulations and taxes on farmers and they’re happy to go without subsidies.
One of Sen. Ernst's "deviations", but one that she probably has to take, just as Jesse Helms had to vote for tobacco subsidies or there would most likely have been a Dhimmicrap voting for a lot worse policies.
Ted Cruz doesn’t pander, and that is a worthwhile thing in anyone who might want to be president.
That is why for all our disagreements, many conservatives liked Eugene McCarthy — he didn’t pander. He was who he was, take it or leave it.
Cruz is like that.
Contrary to popular belief, something like biofuels is pretty far down the list of issues that will make or break a candidate, especially in a state like Iowa whose ag sector can produce about anything. Iowa isn’t Nevada, dependent on a single gimmick.
Joni Ernst spoke many times on the campaign trail about “Iowa Nice”. And that’s what I witnessed at the Ag Summit today,, only a handful of people in attendance thought Ted Cruz stands a snowballs’s chance in hell of being the nominee. But they were willing to applaude his willingness to be honest. And that, friends,, is “Iowa Nice”.
With billions in government subsidies supporting the corn ethanol boondoggle and ethanol plants operating all over the Midwest isn’t it about time to cut the subsidies and let the market decide? Without the subsidies my bet is that most of these ethanol plants would soon be closed and the cost of ethanol laced gasoline would skyrocket.