Raisin Crime
- Thread starter karrie
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While the government does have an interest in maintaining an emergency reserve, such a policy should not interfere or impose too great a burden on the daily operations of a farming industry. I agree that on the surface the Ag dept's action is or appears to be a taking and therefore subject to due process considerations. However, I wonder whether this is a balanced presentation ~ has the Ag department given these farmers subsidies so that the products were grown with government money? Have their taxes previously been abated so that they were enabled to grow without the financial impediments that taxation or regulation may cause? And since the raisins were sold without government regulation do we know if all USDA health inspections and regulations were carried out? Suppose they weren't and the farmers sold defective raisins which cause injury or illness, especially to children - would the public be as sympathetic to them as they appear to be at the moment?
While this is a good subject for discussion, it leaves me with more questions than answers.
While this is a good subject for discussion, it leaves me with more questions than answers.