Supreme Court strips away our right to expensive raisins

[dismal]

There is one justice that thinks taking 40% of someone's crop and giving them nothing in return is not a taking without compensation.

The crops are not really "taken without compensation"? The compensation is merely indirect. The whole point of such programs in to drive up prices and increase per unit profit margins. They also often use the $ raised by selling the "surplus" to schools for marketing campaigns to increase demand for the product overall. This is why most farmers seem to support these programs and why the big corporate farms with lots of lawyers have done litte to stop them.

Also note that the reason this one farmer brought the suit is that the government fined him for trying to skirt the rules by directly selling their own raisins to the end-consumer. It sounds like they created a shell retail company and gave their own company those surplus raisins for "free", which means they technically did not "sell" them and thus thought that was a loophole. They benefited from the higher market value created by all other farmers holding back supply, but then tried to sell all their own supply at that higher price. Only after getting fined for this, did the bring the suit to stop the whole program altogether.

So the government is running a conspiracy to screw over raisin consumers. That sure don't sound like a "public use".

On the plus side, this didn't say they can't screw consumers they'll just have to screw consumers some way that does not involve taking the crops without compensation,

 

[Nice Squirrel]

The crops are not really "taken without compensation"? The compensation is merely indirect. The whole point of such programs in to drive up prices and increase per unit profit margins. They also often use the $ raised by selling the "surplus" to schools for marketing campaigns to increase demand for the product overall. This is why most farmers seem to support these programs and why the big corporate farms with lots of lawyers have done litte to stop them.

Also note that the reason this one farmer brought the suit is that the government fined him for trying to skirt the rules by directly selling their own raisins to the end-consumer. It sounds like they created a shell retail company and gave their own company those surplus raisins for "free", which means they technically did not "sell" them and thus thought that was a loophole. They benefited from the higher market value created by all other farmers holding back supply, but then tried to sell all their own supply at that higher price. Only after getting fined for this, did the bring the suit to stop the whole program altogether.

So the government is running a conspiracy to screw over raisin consumers.

Exactly. That was their intent all along: to screw the consumer of that horrible crop.