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Federal Land Grab Far Bigger Problem than No-Cost Sugar Program

Federal Land Grab Far Bigger Problem than No-Cost Sugar Program
N&V Staff
June 29, 2015

Chuck Muth(Chuck Muth, President, Citizen Outreach) – When the opening line of a column inked by a former congressman reads, “The EPA just finalized one of the biggest land grabs in American history,” it’s a column that demands to be read.

In an op-ed published Monday by The Hill, former Rep. Larry Combest (R-Texas) warns that a new rule enacted by the Environmental Protection Agency gives the federal government regulatory control over all “tributaries” in the United States, including…ditches.

Rule violations, Combest explains, could cost farmers, ranchers, dairymen and others fines of up to $37,500 per DAY and odds are high that the rule will open up the floodgates for lawsuits by environmental groups.  But that’s not all that’s bugging Combest…

“…(L)ike most Texans serving in Congress today, I was consistently ranked as one of the most conservative members in Congress. And that is why it appalls me that instead of libertarian groups announcing that their No. 1 objective is to overturn this rule and protect the private property rights of every American citizen — which is at the very heart of a free society — these groups were reported on June 24 in The Washington Post as saying that their No. 1 objective is, of all things, killing U.S. sugar policy.

“No wonder rank-and-file conservative Americans are so disgusted. Of all of the maladies in government and society today, the only thing that these groups in Washington, purporting to carry the conservative banner and armed with billions of dollars, can muster is an attack on farmers. What is their next act? To disappear?

“Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.), one of the most committed conservatives in the House of Representatives, has introduced legislation — backed by conservative groups that make decisions based on principle rather than a rich donor base — that proposes to do what any conservative American would do. Yoho’s bill would zero out U.S. sugar policy when America’s biggest foreign sugar competitors do the same.

“Any real conservative and any ordinary American would reasonably wonder if that’s really too much to ask of our trading partners. The Yoho bill should be the model legislation for all of American agriculture, which is hit hard every day by high and rising foreign subsidies, tariffs and other barriers to trade imposed by countries like communist China.”

Combest makes an excellent point.  While other nations heavily subsidize their sugar industries, the U.S. program “did not cost taxpayers a dime last year, will not cost taxpayers a dime this year and is projected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to cost zero dollars for the next decade.”

Congress should, indeed, focus more on the EPA’s land grab, in addition to supporting Rep. Yoho’s “zero-for-zero” proposal.

 

Mr. Muth is president of Citizen Outreach and the publisher of www.NevadaNewsandViews.com. He personally blogs at www.MuthsTruths.com.

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