Subsidies for those who don't need it, whether they be in the form of outright payments (agribusiness) or ridiculous tax breaks (energy companies) need to end, and now.

Check New Zealand's cessation of farm subsidies...they now produce more and cheaper food than they did when they were handing out subsidies...in spite of the handwringing and teeth gnashing coming out of their agribusiness industry when the end of subsidies was proposed.

It's just like the auto companies crying that they will go out of business if forced to meet better emissions standards or better mileage per gallon standards...every time it has happened, they say they will go out of business, and then they go out, meet the standards, and business continues as usual.

Every time.

Make oil companies use the permits they have in hand for exploration. If they don't, give them to those who will. When those companies do use them, take the public's cut of the public resource from those oil companies.

End tax breaks for companies that operate or send jobs overseas.

These aren't liberal or conservative concepts...these are simple and obvious concepts that any fiscally responsible person...or government...should be able to embrace out of hand.

For all the complaining about "entitlements" that are draining the economy and the coffers, the entitlements most folks are complaining about are but a drop in the bucket compared to these perpetually open taps.

Fish on...

Todd