The Ethanol Chickens Come Home to Roost

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  July 26th at 09:32 AM  | 

After a year full of victories for big government legislation in Congress, the forces of statism seemed to have met their Waterloo with the farm/food stamp bill.  The more people learned of the profligate food stamp spending and the market distorting, risk-inducing agriculture programs contained in the bill, the more they spoke out against this monstrosity.  Speaker Boehner has refused to bring the bill to | Read More »

Tax Cuts for the Rich – Bad; Subsidies – Good

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  June 20th at 09:24 AM  | 

Barack Obama and the Democrats have promised to make this election a turning point in the fight to make the rich “pay their fair share” of taxes.  They are using biblical innuendo to suggest that it is immoral for the top 1% of earners (who happen to make 17% of nation AGI) to only pay 36.7% of the federal income taxes.  This is their hill | Read More »

Agriculture Appropriations Bill Update

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  June 15th at 11:48 AM  | 

Today, the House is debating the annual Agriculture Appropriations bill, which appropriates funds for the Department of Agriculture and similar agencies.  The committee-passed bill provides a spending level of $17.25 billion, which is $2.7 billion less than FY 2011 appropriations. While $2.7 billion is a good start -enough to invoke the most vile class warfare from Democrats – there is still more to cut.  This | Read More »