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On the recordFebruary 1, 2022
What typically seems to have happened is that we take $10 out of an industry, and about $9 of that ends up in a bureaucratic regulatory investigator bundle, and about $1 of that might go back to the ag worker.
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Mike Cloud
Republican · Texas

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Cloud critiques the inefficiency of government intervention in carbon markets for agricultural workers.

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