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It is wrong to have feds pick winners and these farmers know this.
Wow. Calm, cool, collected, explanation complete and understandable and Cruz didn’t have him thrown out without his coat.
This is how a leader behaves.
Cruz put all his political eggs in the IA basket.
How brave of him to sacrifice them all.
Did he call anyone a loser?
But I don't think this was Ted's first proposal for ethanol.
I believe this is exactly the same as Trump proposed and it looks like Ted has evolved.
I'm going to go back and read it again and try to find what Trump said and see how they line up going into the caucus.
Cruz did really well here to explain his stance on the issue, and he’s right on the money.
I’m for Trump, but good on Cruz.
Good move for the rest of the country, political poison in Iowa. Credit where credit is due, Cruz took a principled stand and it was the right one, but it’s going to cost him the win there, imho.
Regarding the video, G-d bless the gentleman who expressed concern to Cruz about the farm subsidies. But with all due repect mom & pop, if the gentlemans parents had made sure that their now adult farmer son had been taught about the federal governments constitutionally limited powers, then he would know that the Supreme Court had clarified the following about Congresss limited power to appropriate taxes.
Not only have previous generations state sovereignty-respecting justices clarified that Congress is prohibited from appropriating taxes in the name of state power issues, but the Court has also singled out agricultural production as a state power issue. This is evidenced by the following excerpts from Supreme Court case opinions.
”Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” - Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited. None to regulate agricultural production is given, and therefore legislation by Congress for that purpose is forbidden [emphasis added].” - United States v. Butler, 1936.
And this get me to the problem that I have with Harvard Law School-indoctrinated Cruz. Regardless that his opinion on farm subsidies is constitutionally based, who cares about opinions when the Constitution has already decided this issue; no federal government subsidies for any reason unless the states amend the Constitution to grant the feds the specific powers to tax and spend for such purposes.
So why does Cruz volunteer his opinion about federal subsidies in general without pointing out constitutional problems with subsidies?
And with great reservation, I will also mention the following. Given that Ohio citizens are faith-based people, the cost of not knowing the federal governments constitutionally limited powers to tax and spend means that they are cluelessly stealing revenues from other states with respect to wanting unconstitutional federal farm subsidies.
Also, I wonder if Ohio farmers would actually be better financially off if they were to work with state lawmakers to put a stop to corrupt Congress stealing their states revenues and their personal income though unconstitutional taxes even if they lost their farm subsidies.
Also, with the exception that the states might not want to do it, there is nothing stopping the states from amending the Constitution to give the feds the specific power to tax and spend for INTRAstate agricultural purposes.
Donad Trump’s support of Ethanol subsidies are a hot topic, listen to these episodes to find out what that danger is and what it does to your car!
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Why do good politicians oppose farm subsidies? Because farm welfare is theft to the American Tax payer...idiot!?!