To me, ethanol epitomizes the dysfunction of our national politics. It’s an awful policy, raising the price of both fuel and food, which hits the poor hardest, while damaging engines and stealing from the taxpayer. Everyone knows it but, because, by historical circumstance, Iowa is so politically prominent in presidential politics, too few are willing to say it (I’ll grant that Huckabee and Santorum may actually be economically ignorant enough to think it’s a good idea). So good for Cruz.
I wonder if there’s any possibility of a class-action suit against it, from both fuel consumers and food consumers? If not, there should be. It could fix a lot of awful welth-transfer laws.
I am not sanguine.
The doctrine of selective sovereign immunity, in the 21st Century, means that you can only sue the US government if it’s PC.
Paying extra for fuel and food because of insane and destructive ethanol mandate? Work harder, peon. The US government is sovereign and does not consent to be sued.
Kill six people while knocking over a liquor store then get shot by the cops, then sue for “police brutality?” The Department of Justice’s Community Relations Task Force is already on its way, those honkey oppressors you shot deserved it, would you like your money in a lump sum or as a lifetime pension, and would you like a college scholarship to go with your billion-dollar payout, Sir?
Ted Cruz is 100% right.
Unfortunately, he also just strangled his presidential candidacy in its crib. the Iowa farmers are worse welfare queens than the Harlem Baby Mamas for which the title was originally drafted. You can’t win the nomination without winning in Iowa or New Hampshire, and you can’t win Iowa by objecting to farm subsidies of any kind no matter how badly they damage the country as a whole.
It’s long past time had one date for all primaries, it’s wrong that any state have this much power over the nomination process, let alone this batch of welfare parasites masquerading as honest hardworking Americans
I wouldn’t worry about Iowa, the last two elections they nominated Huckabee and Santorum. The caucus might give an initial edge, but it isn’t always lasting.