Category Archives: Tobacco Over Foodstamps

Kentucky State Tobacco Subsidies Takes Precedence Over Food Stamp Funding

by

0

Posted on Tuesday, May 21st, 2013

Senators target tobacco crop insurance subsidy

Taxpayer-subsidized crop insurance for tobacco production would be eliminated under a farm-bill amendment introduced Monday by U.S. Sens. Dianne Feinstein and John McCain.  The senators say their amendment would save $333 million over the next decade, and direct all savings to be used to reduce the federal budget deficit. Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., has indicated the amendment will get a vote.

“It’s time for the American taxpayer to get out of the business of subsidizing tobacco—once and for all,” Feinstein, D-Calif., said in a news release. “Tobacco costs our economy $200 billion in health care costs and lost productivity each year. In this challenging budget environment, we simply can’t afford to spend hundreds of millions of dollar to incentivize farmers to grow this crop.”

Kentucky State University Has 27% Graduation Rate UNDER Thomas Massie’s 4th District of Kentucky/ Received USDA Farm STAMPS Totalling $186,368,544 1995-2012 From TaxPayers.

FOOD OR TOBACCO Or Tax payers buying WEED Paid for by taxpayers:

Two Kentucky Democrats who have demanded that tobacco farmers not be punished by any tobacco settlement, Sen. Wendell Ford and Rep. Scotty Baesler also traveled with the president.

Stop saying Black People  don’t pay   Ask Phillip Morris about their BLACK AND MILD  Recipients of Tobacco Subsidies from farms in Duplin County, North Carolina totaled $20,393,000 in from 1995-2012.

Tobacco Subsidies in North Carolina totaled $614 million from 1995-2012.

Black and Milds

Be Stupid:  YOU PAY Smoke tax: Political forces may align to raise taxes on cigarette alternatives and Tax Payer

Tobacco Subsidies in the United States totaled $1.5 billion from 1995-2012. This Over Food Stamps to Children Who go to school hungry.

African Americans are more likely to develop cancer than any other racial or ethnic group, and are 50% more likely than white men to develop lung cancer.10 Cigarette smoking is a major cause of cancer.10 African-American infants are 4 times more likely to die of complications related to low birth weight than white babies, and have the second highest rate of SIDS.11 Smoking during pregnancy increases both these risks.12 

Senators target tobacco crop insurance subsidy

Taxpayer-subsidized crop insurance for tobacco production would be eliminated under a farm-bill amendment introduced Monday by U.S. Sens. Dianne Feinstein and John McCain.

Tobacco fieldThe senators say their amendment would save $333 million over the next decade, and direct all savings to be used to reduce the federal budget deficit. Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., has indicated the amendment will get a vote.

Kentucky Hemp Bill Faces Skeptical House:

 

Recipients of Livestock Subsidies from farms in Lincoln County, Oklahoma totaled $4,462,000 in from 1995-2012:

Rogers, Hal Republican Baptist attorney University of Kentucky 1981 1937
Kentucky 6 Chandler, Ben

Vermont Legislature Approves Measure Legalizing Hemp Cultivation, Farming to Begin This Year

Related articles