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TIL that in the 1930s, to control prices, govt placed caps on how much a farmer could produce, claiming that a farmer growing more than that cap, even just to feed his family, was “interstate commerce” because NOT having to buy grain to feed his family would affect prices - the Supreme Court agreed!

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