The extremely conservative Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Editorial Board gives Rick a good smack today. They seem to believe that, in supporting the Milk Income Loss Contract, Rick is abandoning sound economic principles in order to pander to Pennsylvania's many dairy farmers.
Rick Santorum choosing pandering over principle??? We are, once again, completely shocked!
From the Trib:
This is the "genius" of agricultural subsidies and tariff-rate quotas that benefited farmers large and small by $46 billion in 2004. The government is managing the market instead of allowing the market to manage itself.
One of the outcrops is higher food prices that the poorest Americans cannot afford.
Mr. Santorum has described the Milk Income Loss Contract as a "little program to help the little guy, who's living out there in rural America trying to make ends meet."
One of the purposes of such statements is to get all the "little guys" watered by Santorum at the taxpayer-filled trough to vote for the "big guy."
It's standard politics. But Senator, it's lousy economics.
