Comments on: Food roundup https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/11/food-roundup-13/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sat, 26 Nov 2016 15:59:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Walt Cody https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/11/food-roundup-13/comment-page-1/#comment-252226 Wed, 27 Nov 2013 09:39:36 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=42562#comment-252226 I think several SCOTUS nominees (now justices) have already pre-approved the Broccoli Law. The question remains as to whether Roberts will decide that the penalty for not-buying broccoli is a fine or a tax.

]]> By: John Fembup https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/11/food-roundup-13/comment-page-1/#comment-252053 Tue, 26 Nov 2013 13:42:58 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=42562#comment-252053 Seems clear to me that Congress needs to get to work on a Consumer Protection and Affordable Food Act.

The Department of Agriculture would be given power to define in voluminous, minutely-detailed regulations which foods are wholesome and which foods are not. The Secretary of Agriculture would be granted unprecedented powers (i.e., not minutely defined) to administer the law and the regs by fiat.

The purchase of foods defined as wholesome will be mandatory and partially subsidized.

Foods that are not defined as wholesome will be considered inadequate and substandard. Their purchase will incur a special tax, because they are substandard.

This legislation will not only improve nutrition, it will lower the annual cost of food by up to $2500 for the typical family.

What can Congress possibly be waiting for?

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