Here’s yet another asshat that we don’t need!
Tiny Tim . Follow the money .
“We can’t just pull the rug out from under the industry,” he said.”
BS!!!!!! There are plenty of people and animals that can eat the corn and I guess NASCAR can go back to using gasoline.
It’s our own fault for allowing IA to have such enormously disproportionate influence in our choosing of a president. Any candidate with reasonable notions with regard to agricultural subsidies (farm welfare) will get clobbered and probably knocked out of the race before it really gets started.
Same to a lesser degree with NH.
F** the Iowa caucuses. King Corn must die!
I feel a “hug Obama” moment about to occur . . .
And one less Republican hopeful to content with. . .
Mark Levin already exposed that Gingrich got $300,000 from the Ethanol crowd. It would be safe to assume the same thing for Pawlenty
Drill Baby Drill!
The only partial agreement I have with T-Paw here is that, yes, getting rid of a government subsidy or tax break typically should be done OVER TIME, not immediately, because folks have made VERY-long-term decisions based on the reasonable (if wrong) view that the government would not suddenly shift its position. I take the same view with most all agricultural subsidies.
But, gutless. What I want is a GOP candidate who, even in Iowa, has the guts to say,
“Look. I know ethanol subsidies are popular in Iowa. But two things: they don’t work, and we’re BROKE ANYWAY. Although I promise to phase them out instead of ending them instantly, I will not B.S. you here and tell you that I favor keeping them. If you’re going to vote against me over this bit of special interest spending, then so be it.”
The only change that needs to be made is to quit doing it. Ethanol wrecks engines and is more expensive per mile than regular gasoline in most cases. And it's putting my dinner in my gas tank instead of in my stomach.
What’s Trump’s position?
Ethanol is a deal breaker for me.
As far as I have heard, I don’t think there are any politicians in the agricultural states, no matter how conservative, no matter if they are new Tea Partiers elected last November, who have dared to come out after ethanol.
That’s one reason why I really like Sarah Palin. She has sound moral principles. She follows her convictions, and she is one of the few politicians I know of who have not only cut state spending projects but have refused handouts from Washington.
Even the most conservative politicians seem to think that as long as the money is coming from Washington, they owe it to their state to take it. After all, if they don’t take it, some other state will.
That’s understandable, but it’s the kind of attitude that has gotten us where we are today. The same with farm subsidies.
No, it won’t be easy to wean the ethanol producers off the government teat. But it must be done, even if not everyone in your community agrees. Sarah is the only politician I know who successfully made that case. She was not forced out of office because refusing the Bridge to Nowhere and similar federal handouts made her politically unpopular. She was forced out of office by dozens of malicious lawsuits that bled away all of her own money. These frivolous suits were funded by the taxpayers, but her successful defenses were not. She had little choice but to step down at that point.
“He who pays the piper calls the tune” Ethanol lobbyists shell out big dollars to Republicans and Democrats.
Another one just bit the dust, IMO.
Reach down and remind yourself you’re a man and take a stand you fence sitting wuss.
He’s trying not to offend either side of the issue which just gets both sides irate when they’re this far apart and resolute. Don’t tell the Iowa farmers what they want to hear and the New Hampshire taxpayers something else, be a man and pony up with what you really would want to see happen.
People have had enough of wafflers in the party, try being firm and make a stand. One side might not agree with it, but at least both sides will respect you for it.
Tim , you never were on my short list and you have now been permanently banned from that list ... I got REAL GAS a few weeks ago with no ethanol and my mileage jumped by over 10% ... I thought my odometer was off..
ok, that does it for me. anyone who supports ethanol subsidies does NOT get my support. apparently, the RNC must support these subsidies.
No subsidies for any industry. Let the market run naturally.