Issue Position: Farms and Ranches

Issue Position

I support a strict guest worker program to aid farms and ranches. That program will not facilitate amnesty.

The Clean Water Restoration Act (S 787[111th]) threatened to increase federal jurisdiction from navigable waters to all waters in the United States. [Proof] We've seen the massive sabotage by federally-caused drought to hundreds of thousands of acres of prime San Joaquin Valley farmland. Rogue federal employees issued "biological opinions" and stopped irrigation to protect the delta smelt under the Environmental Protection Act (EPA). [Proof] If S 787 ever passes, our farms and ranches are finished. In addition to repealing the EPA, I will work to ensure S 787 never again sees the light of day.

Our Yakima River Basin water is in jeopardy. This is about survival. It's also a national security matter. I will use all possible federal assets and resources to increase a reliable water supply for the citizens of our district and our State, to include the transfer of Columbia River water, wind generated pumped storage to reduce reservoir lowering, increased power generation and water from British Columbia, and grants and interest-free loans for water storage projects. I won't let the Yakima River Basin become another San Joaquin Valley.

The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 (HR 875[111th]) would give federal bandits total control over all farming and ranching operations -- from soil preparation to planting to harvesting to marketing -- under the guise of "safety." [Proof] If HR 875 ever passes, our farms and ranches are also finished. Anything left would resemble a Soviet-run collective farm or ranch, incapable of sustaining our population, our nation, or our freedoms. If this legislation resurfaces, I'll work to kill it.

Under my economy plan, all taxes on farms and ranches will be eliminated and the property will be owned outright, fee simple. The increased productivity and national benefit will be astonishing.

The above bills are examples of de-agriculturalization by your enemies. We're barely surviving being de-industrialized by those people. If they get control of our food supply, we're gone. Help me fight them, and defeat them. They're killers.

My ancestors came to the Washington Territory in the 1800s on covered wagons and sailing ships. They were farmers and ranchers in Eastern and Western Washington. In Swiss, my last name, "Huber," means "a farmer who owns his land." I won't let our farms or ranches die.

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