Obama thinks Americans making less than $250K grow their own food?
October 22, 2009
Obama’s administration plans to give the FDA sweeping new powers to over see the safety of the food supply. Everyone thinks this is a good idea. I think safe food is good. How are we going to pay for it? Half of the expanded FDA will be paid for by a new $500 tax on facilities that make food. The other half will come from deficit spending – ug. I seem to recall that Obama promised not to raise taxes on Americans who make less than $250K. Unless everyone who earns under $250K grows their own food they will be paying more for food. This is on top of the higher prices the poor and middle class are having to pay for tires due to Obama’s tax on inexpensive imported tires from China (the ones that are on inexpensive cars). I guess Obama is keeping his promise, but is he keeping the spirit of his promise? Everything we consume is costing more – food, tires and health care – is this good for America? Can we afford the higher costs?
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Taxing facilities is not taxing individuals. HTH Arguing that it’s a trickle down tax is weak. You’d have a stronger point if it were a sales tax.
Also? I’d pay more for my food if I could guarantee that there wasn’t any infected cow shit in my bagged spinach. I doubt I’d be alone in that sentiment. Free market seems to have not taken care of the tainted food problem. In fact, it seems to have exacerbated the issue by centralizing processing to the point that a small amount of bacteria can taint a large quantity of processed foods. In this case I’d say the tax was aimed directly at the problem that needed the oversight.
Comment by nostrum — October 28, 2009 @ 9:50 am