Post Tagged with: "government subsidies"

June 6, 2013 05:49

The Ferengi Are Running Washington

Our “D-Day” will be the 2014 mid-term elections. If after the elections, the Ferengi have increased their numbers in Washington, we are lost – but if the number of Ferengi has decreased, we have started Lincoln’s constitutional process of amending our existing despotic government:

April 19, 2013 08:46

Why Violence and Terror are Part of America’s New Normal

A majority of us keep expecting our leaders and officials to initiate force against our fellow citizens on a daily basis, robbing from another to give to ourselves. And then we marvel at the fact that some choose to take the violence to the streets.

April 1, 2013 06:14

Who Really Cares About the Poor More?

Progressives talk a good game, but underneath the inflammatory rhetoric is a power-hungry machine that merely wishes to prey on the emotions of the people in order to consolidate more power.

March 1, 2013 06:57

Pre-K a Failed Head Start Redux?

Obama’s Pre-K proposals are just a reprise of the perennial feminist demand for government-paid daycare. The feminists believe it’s part of the war on women by the patriarchy for society to expect mothers to care for their children, and they should be relieved of this burden by the taxpayers.

February 17, 2013 18:05

Obama: Profiling for me, but not for thee

Put another way, “White Males Need Not Apply.”

January 7, 2013 10:23

Government Programs Cause More Harm Than Good

Cash for Clinkers turns out to have been bad for the environment and bad for consumers. Will we ever learn? Leftist housing policies caused the housing crisis, environmental policies cost jobs, drive up energy prices and in some cases actually harm the environment. Obamacare is driving up costs and taxes. Has anything the government done worked?

July 16, 2012 14:23

Sacred Cows and Bipartisan B.S. In Farm Bill

Taxpayers continue to bear the heavy burden of subsidizing campaign contributors, the rich and corporations under the cover of a nostalgic vision of farming. “Farmers” who receive about 80 percent of government subsidies are multimillionaires whose incomes put them in Obama’s definition of the rich.

June 25, 2012 07:23

Capital Crime – Biomassive Energy Subsidies in Farm Bill

The farm bill [] has little to do with farming and a lot to do with handouts. Energy subsidies? The farm bill’s full of ‘em, particularly in the Title IX energy section, and they all need to go.

June 4, 2012 06:25

Time to End Ludicrous Farm Subsidies

[S]ubsidy programs paid more than $1.3 billion to non-farmers in a six year period. .. As one example, billionaire Ted Turner has received more than $200,000 in subsidies. – Capitalism Magazine

May 25, 2012 06:58

Four Big Problems with Obama’s Green Energy Subsidy Push

These subsidies have and continue to enjoy bipartisan support precisely because they benefit both Republicans and Democrats come election time, when they can say they helped create jobs for their district and state. But targeted tax credits and other subsidies are wasteful and economically destructive for four fundamental reasons: