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re: We have ethanol because farmers in Iowa want your money
Posted on 3/11/19 at 1:00 pm to weagle99
Posted on 3/11/19 at 1:00 pm to weagle99
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Being brutally honest, the idea of having a right to other people’s money and using govenment to take it is as much an American ideal now as anything else.
It would behoove us small government types to engage and try to change minds.
Why stop there? Maybe you can stop private for profit prisons that Republicans love to have us pay for.
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Posted on 3/11/19 at 1:08 pm to Ebbandflow
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Maybe you can stop private for profit prisons that Republicans love to have us pay for.
Not exactly apples to apples, though. Private contractors are providing a service. The cost-benefit analysis there is what would it cost to do it with civil servants (with corresponding benefits) versus a "pay as you go", scale up/down model that contracting affords.
Not saying it is perfect, but we don't "need" ethanol. No one needs it except corn farmers and corn state politicians, to be honest (much like rice subsidies in Louisiana - no one is immune). A favorite trick of lawmakers is to buy our votes with our own money.
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