Farm Bill

We’re in the holiday season, but that doesn’t mean conservative legislators should take a holiday from their conservative principles. Unfortunately, the farm bill devised by House and Senate negotiators would require them to do just that.

Warning: Congress is preparing to pass a new farm bill.

No farm group spends more on lobbying to keep its sweet tooth satisfied than the sugar lobby.

We less-government-types want to see an end to as much government subsidy money and protectionism as possible.

Socialism doesn’t work because it tries to root out human nature. Capitalism works because it harnesses it.

We less government types have loathed the Farm Bill – since there was a Farm Bill. Because we loathe government inanity – and the Farm Bill is full of it.

What is far and away the most important global trade commodity? Food. People have to eat. Before the world’s peoples can afford to purchase from us an iPhone, or a Ford pickup truck – they have to buy (hopefully our) food.

We’ve seen it in too many sectors of the economy to possibly mention – both domestically and internationally. The greater the government involvement in an economic sector – the greater the ensuing economic damage. To that sector – and the broader economy.

Over the past several years, the federal government has launched several programs to encourage the development of new and advanced telecommunications services in all areas of the country. The two…

When it comes to the Farm Bill, we’ve been doing what hurts for fifty-plus years. Let’s not do that anymore.

…Farming and agriculture have been around for tens of thousands of years. For the vast majority of that time, we grew stuff just fine without a Farm Bill (let alone an entire Cabinet-level Department).

  The US House of Representatives will be considering the Senate’s version of the 2013 Farm Bill this week. A great deal of the debate over the bill will center…