Posted on 01/20/2016 4:35:40 PM PST by TBBT
Conservative Review Editor-in-Chief Mark Levin explained why Donald Trump, the supposed anti-establishment candidate, is siding with the establishment on the ethanol mandate. It has everything to do with trying to pander for votes.
Levin explained what crony capitalism is. That it is the state picking winners at the expense of others. In the case of ethanol they have made it mandatory in cars, even though it is proven that it does not reduce oil usage, because oil is needed for the production of ethanol. That it hurts engines.
The most damaging thing that ethanol does, according to Levin is add to famine and poverty in the third world, by limiting the production of food crops, as the land is used to grow ethanol feedstock instead of food.
Levin focused on the fact that Donald Trump is going all in for ethanol to pander to Governor Terry Branstad in Iowa. He told his audience that Branstad's son makes a living from the ethanol industry.
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It’s not the mandate, it’s the subsidies. I can’t believe there are people on a conservative forum proclaiming this does not matter. Subsidies distort the free market, let alone the aggregate costs and the tax implications.
We are about to enter into an economic era the likes of which most of us have never seen and why? Government intervention and distortion of markets and profligate spending. Someone has to start somewhere to wrest the economy back from an overarching federal government.
The Trumpeters on here will go to any lengths to cover for Trumps big government, big tax, one man rule philosophy. Don’t worry it looks like you are going to get your wish, I just hope we all don’t choke on it.
I was willing to go Trump, but this is starting to turn into a cult of personality and aren’t we in the midst of one right now with Obama? Yeah we are, now I see the political discourse in the USA is just devolving into tribalism and cultism. To me this signals the end of the republic so have at it.
For the record I support Cruz but if he was so adamant about phasing out these subsidies why wait five years? Oh, let’s see now if he is elected and then re-elected the ethanol subsidies are phased out in the first year of his second term when it is no longer a political issue that can hurt him. So Duh back to you! Donald Trump is a far more problematic candidate than Cruz by a mile, but don’t let your obvious adoration for Ted Cruz blind you to the fact that he is also a calculating politician like all the rest of them.
Honestly Karl, I think that’s a little bit over the edge.
Nothing personal, just my humble opinion.
Well, only one marriage, 29 years and a couple kids. I've worked in several industries all of which have crashed and burned: Savings and Loans in the '80's, Defense in the '90's, Computers & Real Estate in the 2000's - 2010's.
So, I guess my choices in professions may disqualify me. Lolz.
“The establishment is going all in for Trump.
It appears that he made a deal. LOL”
Oh, yeah. The headlines are just filled with pro-Trump articles today.
What we REALLY need is a Presidential candidate almost NO ONE is going to like - including his co-workers, the media, and population at large. And just to make SURE he’s not popular, let’s pick a guy who’s a lawyer and career politician.
We’ll lose, of course, but that’s what “true conservatives” do, huh?
/s
Because it was the only way to keep from destroying the farmers and ethanol processors that provide it now. They have to retool for something else. Not something you can do overnight. A light at the end of the tunnel is much better than no light at all.
Sounds as good as anyone else out there.
Levin sounded defeated and whiney today. Carrying all the water for Cruz while bashing Trump.
Come. Join us on the Cruz bus. We're all bitter here. Bitter, bitter.
Bitter.
US Grains Council
US produced 14.2 billion bushels (360 million metric tons) of corn and exported roughly 13% to more than 100 other countries (2014-2015).
Fair enough friend. I’m not looking to start another food fight here. We’ve had enough of those the last two days.
No, each of those five years ethanol subsidies and mandates are cut. It is a phase out plan to allow the industry to adjust to the independence of running their industry without tax dollars and the regulations that go with them.
Cruz is nasty. I seen him today at a rally. Nothing like a uniter like Trump is.
In response to very caustic remarks.
And won’t it be nice to welcome all the millions new Democrat voters back through that beautiful door down at the border?!
To me it shows that Trump is just another politician after all. He claimed he would be different, independent. This shows he’s just like the rest.
I don’t trust any of them. How many times are we going to hear the same promises and get kicked in the teeth after the election? Nothing ever changes.
You didn’t get the joke. Thats okay though.
So a little crony capitalism is required to stop the really big crony capitalism... Is that the theory?
I find it amazing so many think you can fudge on the little things and expect the big things to turn out fine.
Yeah, 72 in Kentucky also.
I was in TN recently, over 400 stations. WTH?
I drive 25 miles twice a month to fill my car with real gas. They told me they have to have it brought in from TN. I’m waiting for my state rep to tell me why no wholesalers in KY carry it.
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