Most things that make political sense to Congress make no sense to America. The voters need to change that.
First order of business: Delete all food stamp program subsidies from the farm bill. This is not the direct business of farm producers...
Regarding the Farm Bill, Mr. Edwards has overlooked the biggest reason why it makes no sense. More specifically, before FDR's activist justices nuked 10th Amendment protected state powers concerning agriculture in Wickard v. Filburn, a previous generation of Constitution-respecting justices had offically clarified the following about Congress's constitutionally limited powers as they relate to intrastate agriculture in United States v. Butler. The Court had clarified in Butler, in terms of the 10th Amendment nonetheless, that the states have never delegated to Congress, via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for intrastate agriculture.
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited. None to regulate agricultural production is given, and therefore legislation by Congress for that purpose is forbidden (emphasis added)." --United States v. Butler, 1936.
Reason #1: There should not now or ever have been anything that could be referred to as a ‘Farm Bill’.