La Li Lu Le Lo
Veteran
- May 29, 2010
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I see you hammer farm subsidies all the time. Let me ask you this, are you happy with the availability and price of food in this country?I'd like to use less oil, and those dad gum onerous EPA regulations that Obama and the democrats put it place made it possible for a Suburban to get 20 mpg instead of 8 mpg. I kind of wish they would roll back the EPA regs and these guys driving all these big assed SUV's started getting 8 mpg again.
But I was never a fan of ethanol. But speaking of farmers....we gave THEM subsidies to grow corn that we could feed to our cars. Subsidies that came from MY tax dollars. And the food that these subsidies paid for went into my gas tank. And one result of food in my gas is that my mileage was worse. So I'm paying more to put fuel in my car because my tax dollars went to pay a farmer to grow the food that went in my gas.
And then...farmers were used by the Republicans to rally support against the "death tax". Republicans always ran the ads with the mournful violin music talking about how the family farm was lost because the family couldn't afford to pay the "death tax" and had to sell it. Considering that the first $5,000,000 in the estate was EXEMPT from the death tax, if someone couldn't afford to pay the death tax on the value of the estate that was OVER $5 million, then I'm not sure I needed to be sending them subsidies to the farmers to grow food for my gasoline in the first place.
I don't see you complain so much about an able bodied 20 something year old with 6 kids by 6 different fathers (or mothers) your taxes are paying for. At least the farmers provide you food. What do you get from the "welfare 4 life" crowd?
You complain about the wrong things.