Everything is interstate commerce.
Understand?
Posted on 05/23/2011 5:04:34 PM PDT by John Semmens
What started out as a hobby for their son and turned into a family side-business grossing $4600 (with a net profit of $200 after expenses) last year has landed John Dollarhite of Missouri in a heap of trouble. For the “crime” of selling more than $500 worth of rabbits in a single year, Dollarhite has been hit with a $90,643 fine and been warned that the penalty could go as high as $3.9 million.
US Department of Agriculture spokesman Robert Crook explained that “if you sell more than $500 worth of rabbits in any given year you have to have a license from our Department. Dollarhite didn’t have a license. So we assessed a preliminary fine of $146 for each rabbit he sold last year.”
Crook added that “Dollarhite would be well-advised to pay what we are asking. We are authorized to impose a fine of up to $10,000 per rabbit. And we could include penalties for earlier years if we so choose.”
It doesn’t matter that Dollarhite was unaware that he supposedly needed a federal license nor that the punishment is way out of proportion to the alleged offense. “Ignorance of the law is no excuse,” Crook reminded. “Besides, we’re being merciful here. The guy can take out a loan or sell his house to raise the $90,000. We could’ve crushed him with a multi-million dollar penalty if we’d wanted to.”
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Did you even read what Jim wrote about bloggers?
Didn’t think so.
LOL!
If I lost my house due to some public servant on a power trip, that public servant would find out just how dangerous a man without an address can be.
Everything is interstate commerce.
Understand?
FICTION BECOMES A FACT WITH BIG GOVERNMENT
More Info:
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_welfare/downloads/aw/awlicreg.pdf
http://www.homesteadingtoday.com/filez/Rabbit_info.doc
The standard argument is that the person who bought an in-state rabbit might otherwise have bought and interstate rabbit. Thus, the entirely local transaction has potential impacts on interstate commerce.
It’s a weak argument, but the courts bought it 70 years ago and we’re stuck with it.
In this nation we’re living in an enstrangling, Kafkaesque world of regulations and repressive statutes.
My teenage nephew had an idea how to make money: he would start his own auto detailing business.
First thing he encountered were the myriad taxes. Very depressing.
Then he was told by the city it was illegal to wash automobiles in a driveway. No joke! If vehicles are washed on a hard surface, the runoff must be captured and stored until disposed of as polluted liquid waste.
THEN he was told there was an 8 vehicle limit to how many vehicles he could process in one week.
I reared him to be a conservative Republican. The government is Hellbent on making him into an enemy of the state.
Liberals hate the death penalty but are addicted to wildly disproportionate punishment for other crimes. This is one of them and for a first time offender no less!
This is cruel and unusual punishment
Have you noticed the size limit on postings got smaller in the fairly recent past?
And I’m not telling anyone any news about Righthaven save for yourself.
The topic is blogs being excerpted, not news sources.
The writer of a blog post has no reason to excerpt any of it.
>>>The writer of a blog post has no reason to excerpt any of it.<<<
Ah. My humble apologies. I see your point now that the good fellow is just blogwhoring for page counts.
*Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa.*
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