In early June the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision
allowing a Constitutional challenge to a New Deal agriculture law go forward. The Washington Post tells the story
of embattled raisin farmer, Marvin Horne, who is fighting for the right to keep
what he grows:
Horne, a raisin farmer, has been breaking the law for
11 solid years. He now owes the U.S. government at least $650,000in unpaid fines. And 1.2 million pounds of unpaid raisins, roughly equal to his
entire harvest for four years.
His crime? Horne defied one of the strangest arms of
the federal bureaucracy — a farm program created to solve a problem during the
Truman administration, and never turned off. He said no to the national raisin reserve.
What could compel growers to hand over the goods they have produced for little or no compensation?....The whole article is well worth your read.
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