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..........DO NOT "ENABLE THEM" !!
MAJOR VICTORIES CAN BE HAD...
YOU HAVE TO BE FIRM.
STAND YOUR GROUND.
Fined This Farmer $680,000
For Selling HIS OWN Raisins
— And The Supreme Court
Just Issue A Major Ruling
Uncle Sam Fined This Farmer $680,000 For Selling
HIS OWN Raisins — And The Supreme Court
Just Issue A Major Ruling
by WorkerAnt#11 · June 24, 2015
The federal government can no longer tell family farmers how
many raisins to grow and sell, the US Supreme Court ruled Monday in a
case in which one farmer was fined $680,000 simply because he refused to
obey the government’s orders.
The decision was a defeat for the Obama administration, 
which had
argued that taking upwards of one-half of a farmer’s crop was nothing
more than “market regulation.”
which had
argued that taking upwards of one-half of a farmer’s crop was nothing
more than “market regulation.”
The government must compensate him, the court ruled in a 5-4 decision.
“The Government has a categorical duty to pay just compensation when
it takes your car, just as when it takes your home,” Chief Justice John
Roberts wrote in the court’s opinion in a case called Horne vs. Department of Agriculture.
Raisins, he wrote, are “the fruit of the growers’ labor,” and not “public things subject to the absolute control of the state,”
California raisin
farmer Marvin D. Horne had argued that the US Department of Agriculture
(USDA) violated the takings clause in the Fifth Amendment by fining him
for not turning over part of his crop to a federal agency, the Raisin
Administrative Committee, which determines each year what percentage of
raisins farmers can’t sell.
The USDA fined Horne and his wife Laura $680,000 for refusing to turn
47 percent of their crop over to the committee during the 2002-2003
growing season, Off the Grid News reported earlier this year.
The Hornes were required to turn the raisins over to the committee by an
old law, the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1937.
The act required raisin farmers to turn a percentage of their crop
over to the government without charge, as part of a program meant to
stabilize raisin market prices. The law passed during President Franklin
D. Roosevelt’s New Deal and limited the supply on the market.
As Roberts noted, “The required allocation is determined by the
Raisin Administrative Committee, a Government entity composed largely of
growers and others in the raisin business appointed by the Secretary of
Agriculture.”
In 2003–2004, farmers were ordered to turn over 30 percent of their crop.
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