Whaaaaaaaaaat????
Unreal. It is clear that people who spend their lives in government (and that includes education, since government basically funds all of that, too) have no clue about business or economics. Apparently Mrs. S doesn’t know that “income” is not profit, not salary. They don’t get to keep it. They use their income to pay all their expenses such as land tax, water tax, water bills, salary for the migrant workers, payroll tax, disability insurance, workers comp insurance, mortgage, maintenance of farm equipment, packaging for raisins, freight, liability insurance, gas oil electric and a lot more. When the government grabs 30% off the top every year, those fixed expenses don’t drop commensurately. Indeed they expect the farmer to pay all that out of pocket with 30% less income. And Mrs. S doesn’t also realize that their income is already limited by the laws of nature. They can only plant and harvest X amount on Y area of land. That’s it. Its not like they can “grow” their way back to greater income. It’s incredible the arrogance of the political class and how they work all day every day to find new ways to tell other people how to live their lives.
Her argument was that since only a portion of their property was taken, this was not a taking of their property.
Her argument was that since only a portion of their property was taken, this was not a taking of their property.