Agriculture
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The LP Platform Currently Reads
The Issue: America's free market in agriculture,
the system that feeds much of the world, has been plowed under by government
intervention. Government subsidies, regulation and taxes have encouraged
the centralization of agricultural business. Government export policies hold
American farmers hostage to the political whims of both Republican and Democratic
administrations. Government embargoes on grain sales and other obstacles
to free trade have frustrated the development of free and stable trade relationships
between peoples of the world.
The Principle: Farmers and consumers alike
should be free from the meddling and counterproductive measures of the federal
government -- free to grow, sell and buy what they want, in the quantity
they want, when they want.
Solutions: Farmers, ranchers and all other
purveyors of goods and services in the agricultural free market must operate
unhindered by government regulation, while being policed by private sector
consumer protection agencies for quality, and held strictly liable by government
only against fraud and deception.
Transitional Action: The agricultural problems
facing America today are not insoluble. Government policies can be reversed.
Five steps can be taken immediately: a.) abolition of the Department
of Agriculture; b.) elimination of all government farm programs,
including price supports, direct subsidies and all regulation on agricultural
production; c.) deregulation of the transportation industry and
abolition of the Interstate Commerce Commission; d.) repeal
of federal inheritance taxes; and e.) an end to government involvement
in agricultural pest control. A policy of pest control whereby private individuals
or corporations bear full responsibility for damages they inflict on their
neighbors should be implemented.
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