tobacco quota

Tobacco Buyout Added to House Tax Bill

The bill would pay for the buyout of the crop quota s, which control how much tobacco farmers can raise, with existing excise tax revenue over five years ...
who sponsored the bill and said the White House helped write it ...

Editorial: Tobacco Buyout is Bad for Everyone

Without a buyout to end the quota system now, debt threatens to sink many farmers and wipe out their life savings ...
One area of compromise could be the source of the money needed to pay for the buyout -- $9 ...
As such, it appears headed for a well-deserved landing in the Senate trash can ...

Washington Post: Tobacco Buyout Favors Big Growers

As such, it appears headed for a well-deserved landing in the Senate trash can ...
Not only would the deal do nothing for public health, it would be paid for with money owed to the taxpayers ...
Tobacco is grown in 21 states, but the USDA information showed that holders of a quota to market tobacco -- which has been bought and sold for decades -- live in all 50 states ...
Buyout money could nourish existing businesses, as well as provide the capital to jumpstart new enterprises ...
Hard times would fall on their suppliers and, in turn, their communities ...

Washington Post Editorial: Buyouts and Sellouts

House Republicans have managed to transform this worthy public policy into an expensive corporate handout, paid for out of the public till and without any public health benefit ...
It is designed to get rid of the antiquated system of tobacco farming, a Depression-era system under which farmers maintain the right to grow certain amounts of tobacco ...
One area of compromise could be the source of the money needed to pay for the buyout -- $9 ...

Showdown Over Tobacco Buyout Continues

Short of a ban, which would create a whole new set of problems, the agency still can do plenty in the interest of public health, particularly toward preventing teen smoking ...
Proponents of FDA regulation willingly stipulate that the agency should not be given leeway to ban the sale of cigarettes to adults ...
The political payback was immediate last week, as the House voted 251-178 for the tax bill, with lawmakers from six Southeast tobacco -growing states voting 49-7 with the chairman ...
The proposal, which is included in a larger corporate tax bill approved Monday by a key House committee, would use 10 cents of the 39-cents-per-pack federal cigarette tax ...

Tobacco buyout helps boost farm income to record

Among them must be making sure the buyout doesn't become a sellout ...
Cash receipts for farm commodities fell about $151 million in 2005 from the previous year, but net farm income set a record high, due largely to tobacco - quota buyout payments ...
The corporate tax bill will require many changes when it goes to conference committee ...
National policy aims, and rightly so, for steady reduction in the domestic market ...

WHO ponders the who question, not what and why

4bn, ˆ8bn) Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which selects a new executive director at the end of this month ...
The rest funds pet programmes of donor governments via eight regional offices ...
The WHO should merge its extra-budgetary accounts into the overall governance structure of the organisation and put its use to the votes of the full community of member states,” says Mr Norris ...
They will also have to handle tense relationships with industry, amid conflicts over affordable pharmaceuticals to improve treatment and demands for ever tougher regulations on tobacco , diet and alcohol to boost disease prevention ...
Otherwise, as the attention paid elsewhere to global health and the importance of that in security and welfare grows, the WHO risks becoming perversely less relevant ...

Tobacco farmers swapping crops

Production of burley tobacco dropped by half after the buyout from 5,900 acres in 2004 to 2,800 acres in 2005, and the government estimates that figure will dip to 2,500 acres this year -- although Peek is wary of those predictions and says it is difficult to have reliable numbers at this point ...
The new barn set him back about $30,000 and will take three to four years to pay off ...
Plus, shifting to burley production often means sinking more money into new equipment and building a barn ...