Do you like the idea of your federal tax dollars paying for a $1.2 million study in Georgia to evaluate the nutritional benefits of pecans — and to promote the sale of pecans worldwide?
Does that sound like something Washington should be paying for — or something the pecan industry itself should fund?
We have nothing against pecans. They make marvelous snacks and pies.
But it’s hard to see anything in the Constitution that provides for the federal government to get into the pecan-promotion business.
What makes that spending even more ridiculous is that prices for pecans around the world are already at record highs — mainly because of growing demand for the nuts in Communist China and other foreign nations.