The Coming of the Perpetual Milk Cliff

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  January 2nd at 01:41 PM  | 

Only in Washington could they concoct a scheme in which we are forced to increase spending on market-distorting subsidy programs lest we suffer the pain of further market distortions through government price controls.  Yet, that is the case with the so-called dairy cliff that would have been crossed had Congress not passed an extension of the current farm bill. Last year, conservatives successfully blocked the | Read More »

Compromise reached on… farm bill.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  December 30th at 11:28 PM  | 

If you were asking yourself Just how much of a kabuki theater is what’s going on in Congress right now? – well, wonder no more.  From USA Today: Top leaders on both the Senate and House Agriculture committees announced a deal on Sunday to extend the 2008 farm bill by a year, a deal that could avoid a surge in market prices for milk and | Read More »

Banning abortion the EPA way!

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  February 2nd at 03:30 PM  | 

Thomas Sowell has an article out today about the latest incidence of mission creep from the EPA.  To summarize: the EPA has wide discretion when it comes to oil spills.  Milk contains oil.  Therefore, the EPA has wide discretion over milk spills, too – which includes requiring ‘emergency plans’ and ‘first responders’ and ‘extra storage tanks’ from dairy farmers in order to handle such life- | Read More »