Well, spoon feeding these industries
sticks a knife into the taxpayers
and I say fork that.
Wow!
$88K
That’s like a really small CNC or maybe the net payroll costs for a janitor.
Who the Fk are you kidding Chuckie? Upstate NY is an extension of Appalachia. You and your buddies in the State government have decimated what was once a manufacturing powerhouse. Now the only jobs are in the state run universities (there are about 20 of them) or in the jail system.
Socialism.
Who voted for this?
interesting...
Instead of government cronies handing out federal money to companies they “like” ... why not just lower business taxes?
Cost to apply for grant: $10,000
Cost to govt to review grant proposals and make awards (per proposal): $20,000
Cost to company to fill in the gazillion forms showing the government you have the “right” employee mix: $20,000
Cost to govt to review and file all that crapola: $20,000
Cost to company when govt accuses them of not hiring enough left handed, twelve toed Hispanic lesbians: $100,000
Cost to company to hire specialist law team to extricate themselves from the aforesaid endless mess: $300,000
Net drag on economy: $500,000
Buying votes.
Senator Schumer has once again shown himself to be a great example why the ill-conceived 17th Amendment should never have been ratified, state lawmakers foolishly giving up the voices of the state legislatures in Congress when they ratified that amendment, effectively repealing the whole Constitution by doing so imo.
In fact, here's a previous example of Schumer buying votes by winning unconstitutonal federal funding for a NY library.
Schumer, Gillibrand Announce More Than $490,000 In Federal Funding For Brooklyn Public Library
What constitutionally low-information Sen. Schumer is wrongly ignoring by winning federal funding for his projects is that the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to tax and spend for such things.
Consider that previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court Justices had clarified that Congress cannot appropriate taxes for anything that it cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, grants for businesses and INTRAstate libraries not listed among those powers.
“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 [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Also, note that by having non-elected bureaucrats, those running the USDA in this case, provide funding on his behalf, Schumer is protecting his voting record. And protecting his voting record will make it easier for Schumer to fool low-information voters, voters who probably do not understand the fed’s limited power to tax and spend, to reelect Schumer.
But it remains that such “federal” funding is arguably state revenues stolen by means of unconstitutional federal taxes.
Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!
Remember in November ’18 !
Since Pres. Trump entered the ’16 presidential race too late for patriots to make sure that there were state sovereignty-respecting candidates on the primary ballots, patriots need make sure that such candidates are on the ’18 primary ballots so that they can be elected to support Trump in draining the unconstitutionally big federal government swamp.
Such a Congress will also be able to finish draining the swamp with respect to getting the remaining state sovereignty-ignoring, activist Supreme Court justices off of the bench.
Noting that the primaries start in Iowa and New Hampshire in February ‘18, patriots need to challenge candidates for federal office in the following way.
While I Googled the primary information above concerning Iowa and New Hampshire, FReeper iowamark brought to my attention that the February primaries for these states apply only to presidential election years. And after doing some more scratching, since primary dates for most states for 2018 elections probably haven’t been uploaded at this time (March 14, 2017), FReepers will need to find out primary dates from sources and / or websites in their own states.
Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.
Patriots also need to find candidates that are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed above.
How much of this will wind up in Schumer’s Foundation?