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Will subsidies to farmer Perry come back to haunt presidential hopeful Perry?
The American Statesman ^ | 08/09/2011 | R.G. Ratcliff

Posted on 08/09/2011 8:26:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 08/09/2011 8:26:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Following the rules is not a problem. Advocating that those rules be changed is not a problem.

Not paying tax on vacation homes and income, (Charlie Rangel), IS a problem, and yet, ol’ Charlie still has his job.

I’d take it a step further and say, if Gov. Perry was offered the subsidy and didn’t take it, he’d be less than thoughtful, and not a good candidate!


2 posted on 08/09/2011 8:32:56 AM PDT by brownsfan (I miss the America I grew up in.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Did Perry cavort with known terrorists and America-haters?

No? Then I don’t care what “farmer” Perry did to keep some of his money from the Feds....


3 posted on 08/09/2011 8:33:34 AM PDT by Noamie
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To: SeekAndFind

This is a stupid argument. You can be Conservative and take advantage of a broken system. It is the only way to keep up with your competition. Are they going after Conservative candidates who take the Mortgage Deduction next?


5 posted on 08/09/2011 8:34:52 AM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: brownsfan

There will be many problems that will come up with a Perry candidate. He is NOT what one wants him to be. Just sayin. GoCards in Dallas!!


6 posted on 08/09/2011 8:35:00 AM PDT by GoCards (I am a Hobbit)
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To: SeekAndFind

No.

This is like a loophole in the tax code. Nobody blames anyone for taking a legal tax deduction. They may not like that the particular tax deduction exists, but nobody gets blamed for taking it.


7 posted on 08/09/2011 8:35:21 AM PDT by Brookhaven (Herman Cain knows computers, math, missiles, banking, burgers, pizza, gospel music, & Coca-Cola)
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To: SeekAndFind

These stories are always SO bogus. Conservatives advocate that the gov’t 1) STOP taking our MONEY and 2) STOP making us jump thru hoops to get it back.


8 posted on 08/09/2011 8:39:50 AM PDT by Onelifetogive (I tweet, too...)
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To: SeekAndFind

ROFL!

wow, the liberals are throwing everything but the kitchen sink at Perry now!

You can ALWAYS tell who they are most afraid of, by who they attack.

If this is the best they can dig up, it’s pretty sad


9 posted on 08/09/2011 8:40:24 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama = Epic Fail)
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To: SeekAndFind

$10,000 claimed from a legal approved agriculture dept program? Is that the best they can do?

Maye we compare obama’s use of tax loopholes to lower his personal federal tax rate to 23%?


10 posted on 08/09/2011 8:41:48 AM PDT by silverleaf (All that is necessary for evil to succeed, is that good men do nothing)
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The Austin American-Statesman is a well known Democratic newspaper. It never liked Perry and you can see they’re digging up dirt on him!

All I want are facts! Both sides! Not digging up dirts!

That’s why I quit the paper! It is good for wrapping fishes!


12 posted on 08/09/2011 8:46:17 AM PDT by Sen Jack S. Fogbound
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“There will be many problems that will come up with a Perry candidate.”

And the problem that I see is there is no good candidate in the GOP field. Each has their own fatal flaw, either ideologically, or due to a poor track record, or both.

Are you reading this Paul Ryan?


13 posted on 08/09/2011 8:47:02 AM PDT by brownsfan (I miss the America I grew up in.)
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Is that the same Paul Ryan who voted for McConnell’s Satan Sandwich?


14 posted on 08/09/2011 8:49:00 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: SeekAndFind

If the government wanted to pay me to NOT plant on my land next year I’d think they were loopy but I’d probably take the money.

“A fool and his money....”


15 posted on 08/09/2011 8:51:21 AM PDT by Grunthor (Faster than the speed of smell.)
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Cutey. Too bad she’ll be washed up, dried out or dead by age 30.


16 posted on 08/09/2011 8:52:44 AM PDT by Grunthor (Faster than the speed of smell.)
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A farmer in our local area won a 2.7 million dollar lottery when a news reporter asked him what he was going to do with the money this was his response.

"Keep farming until the money runs out I guess ..."
17 posted on 08/09/2011 8:53:18 AM PDT by Scythian
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To: SeekAndFind

the austin statesman is a socialist rag.


18 posted on 08/09/2011 8:59:38 AM PDT by ken21 (ruling class dem + rino progressives -- destroying america for 150 years.)
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To: SeekAndFind

frankly I think his brazen abuse of Executive Orders in the Gardisil affair is a much bigger problem for him


19 posted on 08/09/2011 9:01:55 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog; Cincinatus' Wife

What was abusive about it? The girls could opt out of the vaccination if they didn’t want it and it would protect them against potential harm if they took it. Where is the abuse?


20 posted on 08/09/2011 9:21:26 AM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (I retain the right to be inconsistent, contradictory and even flat-out wrong!)
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