Udder Nonsense ; High Court Butchers Logic in Cattle Case

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In a decision that seemed to twist logic unmercifully to arrive at a prescribed conclusion, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declared that those ads promoting "Beef: It's what's for dinner," are not the work of an industry council promoting their product, but are in fact "government speech." Therefore it's acceptable to use the coercive power of government to force beef producers who don't agree with or like the ad campaign to pay for it.

Most Americans who see those agricultural industry promotion ads - - think also "Got Milk?" or "the other white meat" -- probably believe they're supported by dues or voluntary assessments on members of industry associations. In fact, almost all those campaigns are backed by the federal government, which makes it illegal for beef producers (to take the current example) not to pay $1 per head of cattle sold to support the campaigns.

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Udder Nonsense ; High Court Butchers Logic in Cattle Case

A sensible Supreme Court would wonder what clause in the Constitution gives the government power to promote a special interest through taxation and would conclude that the government had no constitutional authority to do such a thing...

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