Dude is a hog consolidator, from genetics to slaughter. More of a banker than labor. I’ve never really thought he should try to play a farmer card. A lot of farmers from the 90s and early 2000s aren’t big fans of these guys. But maybe these days it’s just capital preaching to capital to try to get working people on board. Weird world.

Papik is right. And there is away to avoid the generality problem: require some connection between different pieces of legislation. Making changes or additions to the state’s law that are necessary or natural in light of other additions or changes makes sense. /

It’s just a bunch of morons. Covid era spending took the form of, in part, tax spending. When Feds do that and spend printed/deficit money, it’s so big that it pumps money into the economy and devalues the dollars. Instead of holding steady on rates and tax expenditure to ensure we can collect revenue at the same pace in light of the inflation we all know is coming, we do more tax spending. All expenses are going up, even if you don’t want to do anything new. Fundamentally unserious governance at the state level. Or, frankly, incompetence. But hey, that’s politics.