Millionaires Deserve Subsidies - Really Norm?
Posted by Andy on May 2nd, 2008
Sen. Norm Coleman ‘Independent‘ Republican of Minnesota is once again joining Democrats in the war against Bush and the end to subsidies for millionaire farmers. He’s threatening/promising to help Democrats override the likely veto of the Farm Bill.
Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn. and a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, told reporters Thursday that he backs the Farm Bill emerging from talks between the House and Senate and will work to see the Senate override a threatened Bush veto.
“The president has indicated today he will veto the Farm Bill. That would be a terrible mistake,” Coleman said in his weekly press call. “The president’s wrong if he vetoes the Farm Bill. I will work hard to override that veto. Perhaps it won’t get to that point.”
One of Bush’s major concerns in the bill is that people who make $1.9 million a year will still be able to receive subsidies under the current farm bill.
The president is also reportedly balking at higher income limits than he proposed, with farmers making up to $1.9 million a year in combined farm and non-farm income still able to receive subsidies, well above the $200,000 annual limit Bush sought and near the $2.5 million current limit.
I’m sorry, but for all the hand wringing by farmers and ethanol loving politicians over oil profits, I am astonished that they’d have the temerity to demand millionaire farmers (or people who happen to own a or part of a farm) still be able to feed at the federal taxpayer trough.
Sen. Coleman, your opponent is self-destructing. Do you really need to go down this road? How about not acting and siding with the Democrats in their goal to protect the welfare for millionaire farmers and act like that 80% conservative your campaign manager told me so much about last year.
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May 2nd, 2008 at 1:20 pm
I would be delighted if Norm would get his voting record UP to 80%. Obviously this isn’t the way to do that. $200K is probably too low, but 10 times that is probably too high.
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