Wheat futures have hit $10.00 a bushel. Corn is over $4.00 a bushel. Finally the farmers are getting a fair market value for their product. Free enterprise is finally working for them too.
You mean the free enterprise that comes from a government mandate out of Congress, right?
And by fair, you also mean subsidized, right? As in subsidized by my tax dollar.
Everybody knows you can’t win in the midwest unless you ‘take the pledge’ right?
That isn’t ‘Free’ and it isn’t an ‘Enterprise’ especially when the lion’s share of the benefits go to ADM.
No, it’s ‘expensive’, and it’s planned economics - which is what the Soviets tried and failed with.
Bullsh**.
The 'fair market' doesn't have a thing to do with what's going on in the corn market. Farmers are the largest bunch of welfare whiners in the country.
This bill sucks and should be vetoed.
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They are centrally planned over-priced charges to (1) buy Iowa corn farmers votes, (2) make it APPEAR to the enviro extremists and the news media that the “green” “natural” products are being used to APPEAR like Washington politicians “care” about the environment.
Never mind that now people will pay MORE for food - no, we must waste money artificially INCREASIING the price of food so we hurt more people and make energy costs go up. There is no actual benefit to ethanol in the US. Overseas, where ethanol comes from non-corn sources, AND where fossil oil is NOT available like Brazil, ethanol is an expensive substitute.
But here? It is a politically popular waste of energy.
Does that mean we end all farm subsidies?