This looked like a great program.
Raisins for school lunches and other programs is nice, but the rest sucks. The farmers have as much as half of their produce confiscated with little if any compensation. They are prohibited from marketing and selling their own crop directly to consumers. Many raisin farmers have had to give up their business due to the law. And a lot of the crop of government takes is sold dirt cheap overseas, where it drives down prices there in order to raise them in the US.
This ruling is a major victory against insane government micromanaging and bankrupting of farmers.
He shouldn't. It's an absolute banana republic power grab that has no place in our country. How would you like it if implied consent to have up to half of your assets seized and auctioned below market value was required to start one of the oldest and most basic businesses humans have ever run? Would it really make everything right if a small percentage of the seized assets might sometimes be used to help the poor? And no, this is not the same as paying taxes on your income. A wealth tax is explicitly unconstitutional and property taxes are never anywhere near half the value of the property.
And I like FDR as much as the next person, but for goodness sake, feeding your own family with your own crops is not interstate commerce! That's a precedent I'm happy to move farther away from.
