Quotes

"Fascism and communism both promise "social welfare," "social justice," and "fairness" to justify authoritarian means and extensive arbitrary and discretionary governmental powers." - F. A. Hayek"

"Life is a Bungling process and in no way educational." in James M. Cain

Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero

As Christopher Hitchens once put it, “The essence of tyranny is not iron law; it is capricious law.”

"Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan

"Law is where you buy it." Raymond Chandler

"Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" Clarence Day

"If I feel like feeding squirrels to the nuts, this is the place for it." - Cluny Brown

"Oh, pshaw! When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have." Owen Wister "The Virginian"

Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” ~ Jonathon Swift

Monday, August 6, 2012

It is $957 billion! - Kill the Farm Bill

No limit subsidies for the rural rich big farms not to grow, food stamps for the urban poor, more environmental payoffs.
But does it eliminate ethanol, that cost 129% more power than it produces?

Kill the Farm Bill | The Weekly Standard
AUG 6, 2012 • BY ELI LEHRER

A major farm bill is now stalled in the House as members head back to their districts for their traditional break. This is a good thing. The measure approved by the Senate and by the House Agriculture committee with bipartisan support easily ranks as the worst major piece of domestic policy legislation to have a serious shot at passing a conservative chamber of Congress. The $957 billion bill—called the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act (or FARRM) by the House committee—fails to rein in entitlements, banishes the last vestiges of the free market from American agriculture, and threatens to harm the environment. Quite simply, this bill guts nearly all controls that would otherwise stop poorly conceived agricultural subsidies from spiraling out of control. Congress needs to reconsider the entire bill.

America’s complicated system of agricultural subsidies, regulations, and price controls has long stood on a corrupt log-rolling bargain. Urban Democrats in Congress have strongly supported subsidies and price supports for mostly Republican farm country in return for Republican support for a generous and ever-expanding Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), better known by its old name of “food stamps.” 
The current bargain “works” as an exercise in client politics. SNAP assures that everyone gets enough calories, while the agricultural price supports and subsidies have brought farm family income above the national average.
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