South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds was featured at the South Dakota Corn University event in Sioux Falls Saturday. Rising food prices are making headlines, but Rounds said the general public needs to understand the entire story. “Consumers are telling their senators that meat prices are going up in the grocery stores so we’ve been communicating the price our cattle producers are getting is low so they recognize that right in the middle of them are these four major packers that are getting record profits.” The Build Back Better plan has hit a wall in the Senate and the White House is now considering the passage of specific ‘chunks’ of the proposal. Rounds expects a similar result. “They tried to use ten years’ worth of taxes to pay for three-or- four years’ worth of programs, that simply was not an honest way of talking with the American people about actually paying for the proposed programs.”
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