Posted on 04/29/2023 10:53:37 AM PDT by simpson96
Federal funds aimed at helping agriculture address the effects of climate change must not be raided to fund agriculture as a whole, said Sen. John Fetterman (D-Penn.).
His move comes as congressional Republicans suggest defunding agricultural conservation programs entirely.
“I strongly oppose any measures that would essentially cannibalize Inflation Reduction Act conservation funding in order to pay for the Farm Bill conservation efforts,” he wrote in a letter to the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee.
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is the climate stimulus package the Democrats passed along party lines last September. It contains $19 billion for helping agriculture adapt to the climate crisis.
Now, that money is up for grabs as part of the wider negotiations over the $1.4 trillion Farm Bill and an omnibus of food-supporting subsidies and legislation that is passed every five years.
Republicans are seeking to loosen — or cut — any restriction tying that climate funding toward federal conservation programs.
Some want to go so far as to redirect all federal climate funding to the Farm Bill’s baseline budget, essentially turning it into a catchall slush fund, the Idaho Capital Sun reported.
Ranking member John Boozman (R-Ark.) has voiced support for redirecting the entire $39 billion of Farm Bill conservation funding — not just the specific climate stimulus money — to the baseline budget, according to the Capital Sun.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
He is even more dim than Biden, which is not easy to do.
Fighting the Climate Change Crisis is FAR more important than merely growing food. Besides, farms are dirty, and stink, and the animals all fart and destroy the ozone layer — or something.
Don’t WASTE money on farms!
/s (in case you doubted)
Another braindead District of Corruption retard speaks! Two Jo Jo Bidenskkyyys. Half of America doesn’t deserve this crap.
Shove it up your collective DemocRAT Dorkbamahole, Fetterman. By the time you really start trying to implement such crap, congress will no longer be regarded as anything but an enemy - and treated as such. We no longer give a **** what you say or think (if indeed, you are capable of thinking).
When will we use the same tactics and declare that leftist negative thought is burning holes in the ozone layer and we need to do something about it like putting them into gulags to work for the benefit of everyone? Turnabout and all that...
We don’t need farms. We have supermarkets and restaurants.
No,no,
It’s the inflation production act.
"Fetterman: Agriculture can’t ‘cannibalize’ climate change funding"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
The states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to tax and spend in the name of INTRAstate agriculture, or politically correct, government-manufactured crisis global warming imo.
In other words, the main way to permanently stop unconstitutional federal taxes is by electing patriot lawmakers who will work to stop unconstitutional federal spending.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
"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 [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." (non-FR; 6 sec.)
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Democrats Are Terrified Of An Educated And Informed Public (3.12.23)
He wrote it? Most likely not!
They should be made to explain what this Climate Change Crisis really is and why they think they’re God and stop the 17 natural climates from changing ,LOL
And all those cows need diapers to collect the methane and droppings from hurting the plants. /s
And Uber Eats.
In a sane country there wouldn’t be any “climate change” funding to cannibalize.
It is so sad to see this happening to our country! This guy, who is a smart as a fence post, has written no such letter. His mind is jello as is China Joe’s. I would challenge him to appear on live television, unprompted, to write a three sentence essay on a topic that would be selected randomly. While we are doing that cognitive test for Fester let’s also have China Joe there to recite the Pledge of Allegiance without prompts. Bet they both would fail miserably....
“have China Joe there to recite the Pledge of Allegiance without prompts.”
I’m certain he could not do it.
I’m also certain he could not recite the names of his grandchildren.
Or recall Jill’s birthday.
Etc.
“We don’t need farms. We have supermarkets and restaurants.”
Yep. That’s where we’re at with a shocking number of the young generation. Especially the ones in Blue cities and states.
So if IRA authorizes $100B for conservation and Farm Bill authorizes $100B for conservation, then $100B is appropriated for conservation, which got funded?
Only the beginning…
I will need to configure my CI score (Carbon Intensity).
The CI score of the renewable fuels that are being produced to replace traditional fuels must be less than the CI benchmarks to generate LCFS credits. The LCFS credits are then sold and traded and generate revenue for a renewables project.
A friend in the renewable fuels industry claim soon a farmer may not be able to sell grains it’s out the proper CI Score.
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