If you're going after subsidies, how about cutting subsidies to the oil and gas industries? In 2010 even with very high prices oil and gas companies still raked in over 400 billion in subsidies.
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-10-21/when-it-comes-to-government-subsidies-dirty-energy-still-cleans-up Related to that is to clean up the Mineral Rights act, instead of granting fees based on 1880 rates or just a few cents per acre, these need to be updated to current fee rates. On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:08 AM, GMoney <gm0n3...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hidden in this mess are a couple of good ideas..... > > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Sam <sammyc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > How about corn subsidies or most > > farm subsidies for that matter. > > > Yes! These subsidies have gotten out of hand. > > > > How about stopping Saturday mail delivery, > > > > YES! This should have been done years ago...OR the price of stamps should > be at least doubled. We are way spoiled with our cheap mail system. > > > > and raising retirement age for SS? > > > Fine with that. > > > > Most important, repeal Obamacare. > > > Meh. Go for it, but don't shut my government down again. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:368054 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
