As much as I hate burning food for gas (and increasing produce costs on SO many types of food) - I’m guessing the free market can take care of it.
LOL!
Obama took Iowa in 2008 and 2012.
Who gives two 0bamas what Iowans think?
“How did he pull it off? “
Well, the real truth is he screwed Ben Carson!
Luckily, living in Washington I have many months till I vote ! Let the contest continue.
(he) “won the support of Iowa caucus goers”
Cruz won the support of about a third of Iowa caucus goers. That’s another way of saying he lost two-thirds.
I wonder if that would open up the ethanol to be made from other cheaper sources than corn? I understand the Feds require it be be corn stock.
I love deregulation, it works. Ordering government peons to invent things is a waste of time. You can only invent by thinking outside the box, government only boxes things in.
In postings here in FR T did my relentless best to zero in the Cruz election on his ethanol position which would work . Because even here in Wisconsin which grows a lot of corn and has an ethanol plant nearby I knew Cruz position was acceptable. It did. Btw Walker took the same phase out government position.
No more corn dole.
hot d*mn!
said a guy at the back of the fr thread.
:-)
This was absolutely brilliant, counter-intuitive strategy on Cruz’ part. This is a guy who does his homework! This is a guy who will take a risk to stand up for his principles instead of taking the cowardly way out and instead of following the establishment playbook. And not just religious principles, but true small-government, free-market principles in the great Milton Friedman tradition, the kind that we haven’t had a candidate campaign on since Reagan. Ted Cruz is the presidential candidate conservatives have been dreaming about for decades.
link to the article:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430758/iowa-caucuses-ted-cruz-beats-ethanol-industry
How many other voters does it take to pay him for what he grows when it is not needed.
I hope somebody thinks this out to the end.
I hate paying Jim Beam for juice to get my car to the grocery store and to church.
A politician with principles, who does not believe in government subsidies, very refreshing.
Sounds like Cruz prefers on fuel dollars go to the middle east than American farmers. Doesn’t sound like a true American to me. Sick.
Ted Cruz’s opposition to subsidizing ethanol in Iowa truly shows how principled he is. VERY impressive.
As of now, I’m for Trump, but the fact that Cruz was able to pull this off, is very impressive.
Thanks for the well-written, in-depth article. Ted Cruz is clearly a man who has the organizational and leadership skills to be an excellent President.
Ted Cruz is a really really smart guy.
NAFTA AND U.S. CORN SUBSIDIES: EXPLAINING THE DISPLACEMENT OF MEXICO'S CORN FARMERS
From source: This paper intends to explicate the causal relationship between U.S. federal subsidies for domestically produced corn and the post-NAFTA rural to urban migration in Mexico. While corn production has been central to the Mexican economy for centuries, it cannot economically compete with highly subsidized corn produced in the United States.
Unintended consequences or thought out plan?
How much of the mess we have around illegal immigration can be traced to the collapsing of the Mexican agricultural economy?