Supreme Court rules with Raisin Farmers, Against USDA Program

[ElectionsGuy]

In Horne v. Department of Agriculture

CNBC article

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Definitely the right decision here.

[RFayette]

Fantastic news for free markets and property rights!

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Sotomayor sending a clear message to the wrinkly little things sitting next to retire before Obama's term ends. What an ageist!

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Fantastic news for free markets and property rights!

Hm, if you support US farmers I wouldn't shout "free market" too loudly...

[Ebowed]

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This looked like a great program.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

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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.

[Ebsy]

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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.

Can you back off on the hyperbole?

[ag]

Great news!

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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.

Can you back off on the hyperbole?

There was nothing hyperbolic in my post.

[Skill and Chance]

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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.

Can you back off on the hyperbole?

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.  

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Only fair if we get rid of some pre-depression rules where California farmers use tons of water without paying anything for it.

[Zioneer]

This is Grape news. What a dried out law.

[Ebsy]

My hyperbole complaint more had to do with you accusing the government of actively trying to bankrupt grape farmers. I of course agree that the law needs to go and was outdated.

[jaichind]

Great news!

[Del Tachi]

Horrible decision

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Horrible decision

How so?

[Simfan34]

Horrible decision. The fewer raisins there are, the better. Raisins are disgusting and should be banned.

[Ban my account ffs!]

Raisins are delicious and make a great addition to dishes such as anything you don't want to share with Simfan!

[WVdemocrat]

Horrible decision. The fewer raisins there are, the better. Raisins are disgusting and should be banned.

Hehe, yeah raisins suck.

[Del Tachi]

Horrible decision

How so?

Sotomayor's dissent is pretty compelling, and the hyperbolic imagery heard during the oral arguments could have made anyone's stomach churn.

Most unsettlingly , this puts a whole host of New Deal-era programs at risk and the Court should have further considered the economic implications of the dismantling of this and similar programs.   

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Horrible decision. The fewer raisins there are, the better. Raisins are disgusting and should be banned.

Trail mix? Raisin Bran? Oatmeal raisin cookies!?

[Simfan34]

Horrible decision. The fewer raisins there are, the better. Raisins are disgusting and should be banned.

Trail mix? Raisin Bran? Oatmeal raisin cookies!?

Awful, awful, awful! Hate having to pick out raisins.