Issue Position: Agriculture

Issue Position

Farmers don't need Washington telling them how to farm. If we let them, the federal government will tax and regulate our farmers right out of business.

From fuel to tractors, to the delivery of produce to our grocery stores, agriculture is an energy intensive business. The current cap and trade legislation puts an unfair burden on American farmers and risks putting farmers out of business, and sending production overseas. Unbelievably, lawmakers in Washington are even debating how to make farmers (and thus consumers) pay for the gas emitted by cows. You can't make this stuff up! But this is no laughing matter. Americans do not want the federal government micromanaging our farmers. It's in all of our best interest for our farmers to thrive so Americans will not have to rely on foreign countries for food.

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