Issue Position: Agriculture

Issue Position

Farming feeds Alabama. Here are a few ways I will support local agriculture:

Make sure "roads to market" are accessible and useable.

Oppose regulations that add to crop production expenses.

Support tax credits for irrigation systems or other capital investment projects.

Fight excessive restrictions on water quality or irrigation run-off.

Oppose inspections on farm equipment traveling on public roads and agricultural load limits on those roads.

Support funding of invasive species research.

Property Rights (Eminent Domain)

I will defend private property rights. The U.S. Constitution establishes that property can only be taken for public use. As a result, these instances should be fairly rare. "Public use" does not mean that the government can seize it and sell it to a private corporation just so the government earns more tax revenue off of the property. Property can be taken to build roads or utility easements, but should never be seized so that a private corporation can build a new shopping mall or for any other business-related activity.

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