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You sound glib, but you might be onto something.
 

I'm always glib. But I cross posted on Kos in order to see if any economists out there have an estimate of the direct benefit to drug companies.

We'll see if this is something.
 

LOL...I like how the word "duty" is used for "tax." Where are we? In St. Maarten?
 

These are agricultural chemicals:

Thiamethoxam - pesticide
Brodifacoum - herbicide
Brodifacoum - rat poison

A "duty" is what you pay to export your product into the US.

So Castle's bills are providing tax breaks to multi-national agri-chem companies who have offshored their jobs and factories to China and elsewhere. Nice!!

Thiamethoxam is an especially effective pesticide which is unfortunately bad for humans. The allowable residues on foods were scheduled to be slashed, which would effectively end most uses of Thiamethoxam. But it is still used today because the Bush admin issued an emergency order allowing residues at the current level.
 

Oops, I meant:

Thiamethoxam - pesticide
Triasulfuron - herbicide
Brodifacoum - rat poison

As if anybody noticed.
 

I bet there is a Dupont angle in there somewhere.
 

The Kos info is great. This IS agribusiness rather than big pharma (same difference - DuPont is invloved somewhere)

Anyway It is looking like Castle has been rented by Syngeta to fork over hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks (while we are at war and running huge deficits...very patriotic eh?).

I've got some work to do connecting the dots - but Castle appears to be on the take.

So far I know that Syngeta wanted the chemicals mentioned in Castle's 29 bills and they wanted them cheap.

Well, they got them cheap thanks to Castle. The only question left to answer is, "how much does it cost to rent a Congressman?"
 

AstraZeneca has 50% share in Syngenta.

It's not just about profiting from tax breaks on the sale of the chemicals. The herbicides support sales of the new genetically-modified croplines developed by AstraZeneca and Dupont, among others.

The herbicide is important to Dupont, even if they don't manufacture it themselves, because Dupont is still selling GM seed that is genetically modified to be resistant to herbicides like Triasulfuron.

They spray the whole field and the weeds die, but the Triasulfuron-resistant GM crops survive.

So Dupont, Syngenta, AZ, Castle, etc all want to make sure farmers can buy cheap subsidized Triasulfuron - because that also locks them in to buying the Triasulfuron-resistant seed.

Hell, all the pharma/chem companies have a division playing this game.
 

geeze, where was I all night when this thread was developing?

Looks like the "little" things that no one wants to talk about at the WNJ are getting their due at DelawareLiberal...

you will be getting this week's pols head-on-a-platter medal, Jason.
 

Dupont, Syngenta, AZ, Castle, etc all want to make sure farmers can buy cheap subsidized Triasulfuron - because that also locks them in to buying the Triasulfuron-resistant seed.

So I'm not looking for one big payout from Syngenta - but A web of contributions from from companies, law firms and indivuals all invloved in the biochem industry.
 

He works for the same people Carper does, you !

. S.2926 : A bill to extend temporarily the suspension of duty on Fast Yellow 746 Stage.
Sponsor: Sen Carper, Thomas R. [DE] (introduced 5/23/2006) Cosponsors (None)

A bill to extend temporarily the suspension of duty on Esfenvalerate
A bill to extend temporarily the suspension of duty on Yellow 1 Stage
A bill to extend temporarily the suspension of duty on Benzyl carbazate
A bill to extend temporarily the suspension of duty on ink jet textile printing machinery
A bill to extend temporarily the suspension of duty on Magenta 3B-OA Stage Stage.
A bill to extend temporarily the suspension of duty on Cyan 1 special liquid feed
A bill to extend temporarily the suspension of duty on 1-[[2-(2,4-dichlorophenyl)-4-propyl-1,3-dioxolan-2-yl]-methyl]-1H-1,2,4-triazole).

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/?&Db=d109&querybd=@FIELD(FLD003+@4((@1(Sen+Carper++Thomas+R.))+00179))

Many many many many more ! with no co-sponors
 

Castle and Carper are feeding from the same trough. Jason, I think you have a new issue for your write-in candidacy.

Ain't this an f***ed up brave new world? Corps used to lobby FOR protective tariffs; but now they have offshored everything and are lobbying AGAINST tariffs.
 

Jason for Congress!

And Kilroy, you kill me, who says you aren't on top of your game?
 

Kilroy,

Great work. This is too much. Anybody at the NJ in town this weekend? HELOOO !!!!!!!