“You know it’s bad when even the Greens want no part of it”
Heck, even liberal Time Magazine has criticized ethanol for using a valuable food crop.
But lets be honest. Most congressmen end up diverting subsidies or other taxpayer money to their friends, donors, and to pet projects of theirs. I don’t think most of us on FR could resist the temptation (if we were elected to Congress) to give Federal money to some person/company/cause we like.
I mean, we’re only human. Right?
” I don’t think most of us on FR could resist the temptation (if we were elected to Congress) to give Federal money to some person/company/cause we like.
I mean, we’re only human. Right?”
Of course we’d all like to think that isn’t the case but that was one of the founders most significant ideas for small government. They KNEW people are rationally self-interested and so as to combat that, they limited the amount of gov’t. Which is why we have to roll things back Constitutionally. The Public Choice School of economics has it right.
When you give a gun (a virtual monopoly of force) to gov’t for the protection of your rights, then you better make sure they understand, they can’t use that gun to hunt for themselves or to turn it on you when you catch them at it. That’s the reason for the 2nd amendment.