Double Standards

Why is it okay for Trump and company to ignore laws regarding non-governmental phones and servers, backchannels, records of meetings, etc.? Why is it okay to lock up Democrats for doing any of those things?

Because liberals must be defeated at any cost. Because liberals are tax and spend socialists who hate capitalism and are evil do-gooders who are against law and order and whiteness.

Liberals who will abort fetuses up to the day before birth. Who think that hard-working billionaires should not be taxed at zero even though they are the job creators and innovators.

Who don't believe that health care is only for people with money who have not brought their illnesses on themselves with their self-indulgent poor lifestyles. Who think that the rich should pay more than $28,000 into Social Security per year and who advocate entitlements that guarantee dependency on the government tit.

Who think that it is right to make laws for businesses; laws that interfere with the freedom to make money on every aspect of life. Because liberals don't like the rich man's hand in the poor man's pocket.

Or at least this is why I think they think it is okay to have a separate set of standards for themselves versus others. I could be wrong, you know?

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The Perils of Farm Subsidies

If farm subsidies were not present, supply and demand would raise prices. Farmers would not suddenly go broke or be unable to sell their formerly subsidized crops. Subsidies are supposed to be temporary, not a perpetual taxpayer expense.

• "Without the farm subsidies, the Soybean farmers would have to eat the losses the OVERSUPPLY of soybeans creates devastating their bottom line because China is no longer buying soybeans from American farmers. In other words, without the subsidies, the price of soybeans would plummet instead of going up."

If there is an oversupply, that means taxpayers are handing over money to pay farmers to overproduce. If you stop the subsidies, fewer soybeans are produced and prices rise accordingly. Or the same amount is produced and farmers have to raise prices to cover expenses.

Are you saying that markets cannot handle price fluctuations? You are saying that American taxpayers should be subsidizing Chinese purchases? That our products can't compete on the world markets without crutches? Just how much are taxpayers shelling out in corporate welfare?

It's like oil subsidies. Artificially skew the market so oil companies can either make more money, make it more difficult for alternative fuels to compete, or force global producers to distort their prices. And American consumers pay taxes on the final product, so we are getting screwed on both ends of oil markets.

Do you like US companies competing against foreign producers whose governments subsidize products coming out of their countries? Flooding the market with cheap goods that displace American products?