Political Quotes

“the death subsidy must end. That is why I am a cosponsor of this amendment, because the taxpayer subsidy of the only agricultural product in this entire Nation, indeed in this world, when used precisely as directed by the producer, produces death, produces drug addiction, produces disease. Taxpayers do not want to subsidize that product. If we are ever going to get serious about preventing more of our children from becoming addicted to nicotine, then what we have to do is to break the stranglehold of the tobacco lobby on this Congress. Indeed, they have been successful day after day because they have oiled the machines of government very well. Only 65 of our Nation's 1,600 crops get the type of crop insurance we are talking about. When the watermelon farmers gather this summer at the Luling Watermelon Thump, and in McDade in central Texas, they will not get a dime of taxpayer subsidies. Why should we subsidize tobacco? Indeed, why should we subsidize cyanide or arsenic? That is the better comparison. Taxpayers are wasting $34 million on this subsidy.”