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Trump's Support for Ethanol Is Bad for Taxpayers and Their Cars
The National Review ^ | January 21, 2016 | Jillian Kay Melchior

Posted on 01/21/2016 2:17:48 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

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To: Neoliberalnot

Not for cars in California.

And yes people like you are forcing me.


141 posted on 01/21/2016 4:33:29 AM PST by DB
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To: Neoliberalnot

This might not be a left wing forum, but yours is surely a left-wing post. Millions and millions of small businesses in all kinds of fields out there don’t receive tax breaks. And very few industries receive outright tax subsidies, governmental price fixing, and the like.

Farmers should keep the money they earn in the free market—other than the taxes that they, like all Americans, have to pay.

Being against government subsidies and price supports is in no imaginable way a an attack against private enterprise.


142 posted on 01/21/2016 4:34:57 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: windsorknot

For those who want to put ethanol in their gas tanks: knock yourselves (and your engines) out. Just don’t force the rest of us to do so, and to pay for the “benefit”.””

No one is forcing you. Prove me wrong. Cars last far longer and get better MPG then ever. Why are you making up facts. This is not move on.org


143 posted on 01/21/2016 4:35:18 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: Walt Griffith

I was simply saying that I don’t think you’ll find my ox gets gored by cutting federal spending... Cut baby cut...


144 posted on 01/21/2016 4:35:22 AM PST by DB
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To: RC one

No reason to take God’s name in vain, no matter the cause.

Government subsidies pick winner’s and losers. The government has no business doing that.


145 posted on 01/21/2016 4:35:50 AM PST by justlittleoleme (Cruz or Lose. Trump is a progressive populist liberal.)
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To: DB

My local Kroger has milk for $2.19/gal, peanut butter for $1.50/lb, chicken at $.87/lb, 6 poacks of 16.9 oz pepsi and coke products for $2.00, ham for $1.79, and typically has beef roasts for around $2.60 /lb if you buy one and get one free; a loaf of kroger bread is like $.89. good multigrain bread is %$2.00/loaf. I could go on. I am not seeing any kind of food inflation in Toledo, Ohio.


146 posted on 01/21/2016 4:36:11 AM PST by RC one ("...all persons born in the allegiance of the United States are natural-born citizens" US v. WKA)
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To: justlittleoleme

What does the latest electronic gadget cost now? Which is of more value? What was milk when you were a kid? What does govern,net cost now?


147 posted on 01/21/2016 4:37:41 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: RC one

“Prices need to be supported?” What is a Soviet economist like you doing at FR?

And lower gas prices help the economy far more than they hurt it.


148 posted on 01/21/2016 4:38:11 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Wow. Look at allthe newly minted socialists on this thread.

on FreeRepublic no less

unfrigginbelievable.


149 posted on 01/21/2016 4:38:11 AM PST by roamer_1 (Globalism is just Socialism in a business suit.)
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To: justlittleoleme

Most reasonable Americans want US agriculture to be a winner.


150 posted on 01/21/2016 4:38:56 AM PST by RC one ("...all persons born in the allegiance of the United States are natural-born citizens" US v. WKA)
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To: Neoliberalnot
Why is allowing a farmer to keep more of the money he earned bad business?

Here we go, again. The subsidy one receives is based on acreage. The perversion is that it forces small farmers out of business.

151 posted on 01/21/2016 4:39:20 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: roamer_1

-— Wow. Look at allthe newly minted socialists on this thread.

on FreeRepublic no less

unfrigginbelievable. -—

Trump will get the trains running on time. Yes, it is unbelievable.


152 posted on 01/21/2016 4:39:44 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: roamer_1

Brave new world, comrade.


153 posted on 01/21/2016 4:40:27 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: Neoliberalnot
This is not move on.org

You could have fooled me.

154 posted on 01/21/2016 4:41:01 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: 9YearLurker
And lower gas prices help the economy far more than they hurt it.

Have you been watching the stock market? This is but one of the many wonders of inflation.

155 posted on 01/21/2016 4:41:05 AM PST by RC one ("...all persons born in the allegiance of the United States are natural-born citizens" US v. WKA)
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To: roamer_1

If Trump would say... we need to punish the rich, and just spread the wealth around.

The Trump fans would say, hey that’s a great idea, poor people are struggling too much and life just isn’t fair.


156 posted on 01/21/2016 4:41:32 AM PST by justlittleoleme (Cruz or Lose. Trump is a progressive populist liberal.)
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To: RC one
Correction:

Have you been watching the stock market? This is but one of the many wonders of deflation.

157 posted on 01/21/2016 4:41:49 AM PST by RC one ("...all persons born in the allegiance of the United States are natural-born citizens" US v. WKA)
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To: DB

So millions of barrels from the Middle East enemies is very little. We built their industry and we buy this oil.

Second, who is forcing you to buy ethanol. Do you drink it too?

You are currently paying less per gallon than at anytime in history in terms of real dollars. What is cheap? Should you have gas for free, maybe food too?


158 posted on 01/21/2016 4:42:06 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: Neoliberalnot

Ever heard of a thing called technology?

It changes. Engines get better. Does ethanol make your computer last longer?

here’s a list of gas stations in California that don’t have ethanol, a state with more than 30 million people:

http://pure-gas.org/index.jsp?stateprov=CA


159 posted on 01/21/2016 4:43:07 AM PST by DB
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To: DB
“Not for cars in California.

And yes people like you are forcing me.”

Just curious, what was you driving for a car in 1967?

160 posted on 01/21/2016 4:43:31 AM PST by Walt Griffith
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