Posted on 07/11/2013 4:02:18 PM PDT by dynachrome
How should Congress deal with the farm bill?
Drop food stamps from the bill, deal with that separately Impose more cuts to food stamps, but keep that in the farm bill
Food stamps are fine -- it's the farm subsidies that need to be slashed
Cut both food stamps and farm subsidies
The debt is $17 trillion -- cut farm subsidies, food stamps and just keep going
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Great politics boys, appear to screw the poor but feed the fat ag industry.
I guess I didn't expect to see that choice.
If you haven't already seen this, what you're not going to hear from Obama guard dog Fx News concerning the farm bill is the following.
When FDR's activist justices decided Wickard v. Filburn in Congress's favor, they wrongly ignored that a previous generation of Constitution-respecting justices had clarified the following concerning Congress's limited powers in United States v. Butler. Expressed in terms of the 10th Amendment nonetheless, justices had clarified that the states have never delegated to Congress, via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate intrastate agriculture. .
"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.
I’m more worried about when the EBT cards STOP working and 47 million are cut off from the government trough:
Drop food stamps from the bill, deal with that separately 25.57%
Impose more cuts to food stamps, but keep that in the farm bill 3.37%
Food stamps are fine — it’s the farm subsidies that need to be slashed 5.05%
Cut both food stamps and farm subsidies 18.6%
The debt is $17 trillion — cut farm subsidies, food stamps a
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Drop food stamps from the bill, deal with that separately....25.56%
Impose more cuts to food stamps, but keep that in the farm bill....3.38%
Food stamps are fine — it’s the farm subsidies that need to be slashed....5.03%
Cut both food stamps and farm subsidies....18.61%
The debt is $17 trillion — cut farm subsidies, food stamps and just keep going....47.41%
Drop food stamps from the bill, deal with that separately 25.64%
Impose more cuts to food stamps, but keep that in the farm bill 3.36%
Food stamps are fine — it’s the farm subsidies that need to be slashed 5.03%
Cut both food stamps and farm subsidies 18.63%
The debt is $17 trillion — cut farm subsidies, food stamps and just keep going 47%
End it. Then defund the FDA.
Vote out the DEMS and the RINOS. Get a real President in the White House.
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