Interesting revelations from the Investors Business Daily
Here’s the bottom line for the ethanol tax credits additive to the White House-GOP tax compromise:
• $6 billion in subsidies for 2011.
• $10 per extra gallon of ethanol.
• $14 million per extra job.
• $1.2 billion to attract one extra Senate vote.
In a season of giving in Washington, the ethanol lobby may come away with even more than it hoped for and its ardent defenders sought.
What does it all boil down to?
(Iowa State University’s Center for Agricultural and Rural Development) director Bruce Babcock said in an e-mail that each 100 million gallons of ethanol creates 70 jobs. Thus, 600 million gallons would result in 420 jobs, or about $14 million per job.
Wow. That sounds gggggggreat! We’ll spend enormous amounts of The People’s money to prop up an industry that produces a fuel that is not even close to as powerful as gasoline, uses immense amounts of water to produce, causes food prices to rise, and, oh, let’s not forget, it puts out just as much, if not more, CO2, that pesky natural gas needed for life that the climate alarmists complain about.
And we’ll spend the money simply to garner one Senate vote. Out in the private sector, we would call that a……..bribe!
Crossed at Right Wing News and Stop The ACLU. sit back and Relax. we’ll dRive!
[…] Subsidies Show Why Washington is Broken by William Teach December 11, 2010 – 7:42 […]
I agree Teach. Shows how the WHOLE of washington is broken. Even our current Repub leadership. Time to replace them as well.
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“Thus, 600 million gallons would result in 420 jobs, or about $14 million per job.”
Sad thing, worst thing, is that these people who are our leaders, our finest, our deciders – can’t even do the simplest of MATH.
Which of course, makes sense, since many of them are incapable of doing their taxes right.
Also,
includes about $55 billion worth of short-term tax extensions for businesses and individuals. They cover a host of alternative energy credits, a potential salve for environmentally conscious lawmakers, as well as targeted benefits for everything from the film and television industry to mining companies to rum producers.
The more things change in Washington, the more they stay the same.