California Farmer Faces Bankruptcy For Refusing To Give Free Raisins To Government
From the You Can’t Make This Stuff Up department: A California raisin
farmer is facing bankruptcy for defying a law requiring him to give the
federal government a portion of his raisin crop – without compensation.
According to The Washington Post, in the world of dried fruit, there is no greater outlaw in America than Marvin Horne of Kervin, California.
Horne, a raisin farmer, has been breaking the law for 11 straight
years. Moreover, he now owes the U.S. government at least $650,000 in
unpaid fines. And 1.2 million pounds of unpaid raisins – roughly equal
to his entire harvest for four years.
Horne’s crime? He defied one of the most bizarre and outdated arms of
the federal bureaucracy – a farm program created during the Truman
administration:
Marvin said no to the National Raisin Reserve. (I’m not making this up.)
As described by Hot Air,
the U.S. government started the National Raisin Reserve in 1937.
Fearing that raisin producers might produce too many raisins – thereby
leading to a drop in prices – the government began confiscating
[stealing] a percentage of raisin production – for raisin farmers’ own good, of course. The problem is, Marvin Horne doesn’t see it that way:
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