Like Bachmann, Tenessee Congressman Stephen Fincher get Tax Dollars for his Personal.

[Sallow]

Business.

While opposing using taxes to feed the poor. He even used the bible to justify his vote:

Critics Blast US Farm Subsidy Recipient Rep. Stephen Fincher For Backing Food Stamp Cuts


Rep. Stephen Fincher, R-Tenn., is refusing to respond to critics who accuse him of receiving millions of dollars in farm subsidies while supporting billions of dollars in cuts to food stamps.

Fincher is a representative for Tennessee's 8th congressional district.

Fincher is one of the largest recipients of federal farm subsidies, according to the Environmental Working Group, a research and advocacy organization that also investigates government subsidies. By EWG’s count, the Republican congressman received nearly $3.5 million in federal subsidies between 1999 and 2012. In one year alone, he was given nearly $560,000 in commodity subsidies -- government cash payments used by farmers to supplement their income. Those types of subsidies affect the cost and supply of crops.

He was among dozens of lawmakers on the House Committee on Agriculture who last week voted 36 to 10 to pass the 2013 farm bill. The bill proposes $40 billion in savings and a $9 billion increase to the crop insurance program. Half of the savings would result from a $20 billion reduction in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as food stamps.
Critics Blast US Farm Subsidy Recipient Rep. Stephen Fincher For Backing Food Stamp Cuts

The Last Word

O'Donnell did a pretty good dress down of this.

And brought up a larger problem. Conflict of Interest in congress.

 

[TemplarKormac]

Wasn't a thread like this posted eons ago? Bible hating, rich despising, misogynistic liberal right here folks! You can only see something this ridiculous in one place folks!

Whatcha gonna do now Sallow? Demand the IRS audit his income?

 

[Sallow]

Wasn't a thread like this posted eons ago? Bible hating, rich despising, misogynistic liberal right here folks! You can only see something this ridiculous in one place folks!

Whatcha gonna do now Sallow? Demand the IRS audit his income?

Guess you are missing the point..but that's okay..because you always miss it.

There's a huge problem with conflict of interest in congress.

You have both Representatives and Senators able to craft legislation that PERSONALLY benefits them. As in, if you have a business in say Coswell Cogs..you can sit on the Cog appropriation committee in Congress and craft legislation that has the government buying Coswell Cogs. Not only that, AFTER you leave congress you can LOBBY for Coswell Cogs.

If that's not a problem for you..perhaps you advocate for it.

I think it's a problem.

 

[J.E.D]

Wasn't a thread like this posted eons ago? Bible hating, rich despising, misogynistic liberal right here folks! You can only see something this ridiculous in one place folks!

Whatcha gonna do now Sallow? Demand the IRS audit his income?

Just a bit off-tpic there, aren't you bub? I guess you can't come up with any excuses for this blatant hypocrisy. Why aren't you condemning this guy as a socialist?

 

[Mr. H.]

Farm subsidies and food stamps.
We need neither.

 

[Sallow]

Farm subsidies and food stamps.
We need neither.

I agree with you on the first point..Mr. H.

 

[Mr. H.]

Farm subsidies and food stamps.
We need neither.

I agree with you on the first point..Mr. H.

So, which one of us is only half stupid?

 

[TemplarKormac]

Wasn't a thread like this posted eons ago? Bible hating, rich despising, misogynistic liberal right here folks! You can only see something this ridiculous in one place folks!

Whatcha gonna do now Sallow? Demand the IRS audit his income?

Just a bit off-tpic there, aren't you bub? I guess you can't come up with any excuses for this blatant hypocrisy. Why aren't you condemning this guy as a socialist?

Nope, just cannot fathom for the life of me why other hypocrites call other hypocrites "hypocrites"

Nice work Sallow!

 

[asterism]

Business.

While opposing using taxes to feed the poor. He even used the bible to justify his vote:

Critics Blast US Farm Subsidy Recipient Rep. Stephen Fincher For Backing Food Stamp Cuts


Rep. Stephen Fincher, R-Tenn., is refusing to respond to critics who accuse him of receiving millions of dollars in farm subsidies while supporting billions of dollars in cuts to food stamps.

Fincher is a representative for Tennessee's 8th congressional district.

Fincher is one of the largest recipients of federal farm subsidies, according to the Environmental Working Group, a research and advocacy organization that also investigates government subsidies. By EWG’s count, the Republican congressman received nearly $3.5 million in federal subsidies between 1999 and 2012. In one year alone, he was given nearly $560,000 in commodity subsidies -- government cash payments used by farmers to supplement their income. Those types of subsidies affect the cost and supply of crops.

He was among dozens of lawmakers on the House Committee on Agriculture who last week voted 36 to 10 to pass the 2013 farm bill. The bill proposes $40 billion in savings and a $9 billion increase to the crop insurance program. Half of the savings would result from a $20 billion reduction in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as food stamps.
Critics Blast US Farm Subsidy Recipient Rep. Stephen Fincher For Backing Food Stamp Cuts

The Last Word

O'Donnell did a pretty good dress down of this.

And brought up a larger problem. Conflict of Interest in congress.

Feinstein makes this guy look like an amateur but it is a huge problem that goes unsolved.

 

[FA_Q2]

Yet another thread showing the asinine outcome of allowing special interests to receive government benefits. This is no different than tax breaks and subsidies.

All the power of congress to select winners and losers and all government payments to companies (unless the government is actually buying something) needs to end. No one in government should be allowed to sell anything to the government either.

 

[Sallow]

Farm subsidies and food stamps.
We need neither.

I agree with you on the first point..Mr. H.

So, which one of us is only half stupid?

Half wit is mo bettah then no wit..

No?

 

[Sallow]

Yet another thread showing the asinine outcome of allowing special interests to receive government benefits. This is no different than tax breaks and subsidies.

All the power of congress to select winners and losers and all government payments to companies (unless the government is actually buying something) needs to end. No one in government should be allowed to sell anything to the government either.

Actually there is some validity to government using subsidies and tax breaks to promote production or research.

But that's got to be carefully vetted.

Having these sorts of conflict of interests issues both dilutes and corrupts the process.

 

[FA_Q2]

Yet another thread showing the asinine outcome of allowing special interests to receive government benefits. This is no different than tax breaks and subsidies.

All the power of congress to select winners and losers and all government payments to companies (unless the government is actually buying something) needs to end. No one in government should be allowed to sell anything to the government either.

Actually there is some validity to government using subsidies and tax breaks to promote production or research.But that's got to be carefully vetted.

Having these sorts of conflict of interests issues both dilutes and corrupts the process.

No, there is not. Tax subsidies do not promote research. Period. What they do is promote the creation and product that is not sufficient for market yet – in essence it STIFLES research.

What promote research is research grants. To researchers.

THAT I can support. I don’t have a problem with the government R&D. It is a vital function in today’s world for the government to take part in. Manipulating the tax code to accomplish this is not only a terrible way of doing so though, it also creates more examples like the one in the OP where the manipulations end up having nothing to do with research or the ‘common good.’

 

[LordBrownTrout]

O'Donnell is just another crazy from the msnbc circus. We should be ending farm subsidies and welfare and getting our military spending under control and paying down debt. Why can't he address crucial issues instead of fringe stuff. From the article, he just showed how inept he was at doing his job.

 

[Mad Scientist]

Farm subsidies and food stamps.
We need neither.

Americas Manufacturing Base was given to China through "Free Not Fair Trade Agreements". How are Americans supposed to eat?

China is now buying up our food supply by the way.

 

[Sallow]

Yet another thread showing the asinine outcome of allowing special interests to receive government benefits. This is no different than tax breaks and subsidies.

All the power of congress to select winners and losers and all government payments to companies (unless the government is actually buying something) needs to end. No one in government should be allowed to sell anything to the government either.

Actually there is some validity to government using subsidies and tax breaks to promote production or research.But that's got to be carefully vetted.

Having these sorts of conflict of interests issues both dilutes and corrupts the process.

No, there is not. Tax subsidies do not promote research. Period. What they do is promote the creation and product that is not sufficient for market yet – in essence it STIFLES research.
What promote research is research grants. To researchers.

THAT I can support. I don’t have a problem with the government R&D. It is a vital function in today’s world for the government to take part in. Manipulating the tax code to accomplish this is not only a terrible way of doing so though, it also creates more examples like the one in the OP where the manipulations end up having nothing to do with research or the ‘common good.’

That's really something else.

Bell labs enjoyed monopoly status for quite some time..and basically got tax subsidies.

'The Idea Factory': How Bell Labs invented the future | The Verge

One of the most innovative monopolies in history.

 

[Stephanie]

O'Donnell is just another crazy from the msnbc circus. We should be ending farm subsidies and welfare and getting our military spending under control and paying down debt. Why can't he address crucial issues instead of fringe stuff. From the article, he just showed how inept he was at doing his job.

he keeps the liberals base riled up..we see that with this thread

thinking not required, just point out someone is a hypocrite