Agricultural relief: Agricultural relief

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Identifikator:: 1831932415

Document type:: Multivolume work

Title:: Agricultural relief

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1831935066

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-232142

Document type:: Volume

Title:: Agricultural relief

Volume count:: Pt. 7

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: III S., S. 521 - 590

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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AGRICULTURAL RELIEF | Mr. AxnpErsoN. Oh, yes. Mr. MEnGES. Who pays for it; out of whose income is it taken to run this machinery? Mr. AnxpersoN. Oh, it comes out of the various places. Ulti- mately, I suppose some of it comes out of the consumer, some of it comes out of the producer and some of it comes out of the speculators. It is borne in various ways. Mr. MEnGEs. In the long run, is it not finally charged back to the farmer? Mr. ANpERsoN. I do not think you can assume, Mr. Menges, that the charges are necessarily imposed at the farmer’s end. This thing is elastic on both ends, and sometimes the farmer gets the benefit of it and sometimes he does not. Sometimes he bears the burden of it, and sometimes he does not. That is like determining which is first the hen or the egg. Mr. Menges. Granting your statement that it is correct that it is charged both to the ultimate consumer and to the producer—I do not know that the intermediaries have any claim here for consid- eration—I may be mistaken; I do not want to do them any injustice; but if that is so, is the machinery any more unconstitutional now than it would be in the hands of an organized agency, such as intended by this bill? Mr. ANDERSON. Yes; I think so. Mr. Menges. It would be? You see, I am not a lawyer and I can not go through the hair-splitting business of constitutionality. Mr. ANpERsON. There are many things which are permitted to private individuals which are not permitted to the Government. Mr. Menges. Would you please explain; would you please tell us what they are? You made a statement there that ought to be verified. Mr. AnpersoN. I do not know. Perhaps you would assume that the Government would directly enter into any private business. I do not think they can. Mr. MencEs. Mr. Anderson, I am not inclined to put the Govern- ment into any business in which the people themselves can help themselves in that business. I am not inclined to do that. pe. ANDERSON. At least we can agree on that; I am with you on that. Mr. Menges. All right. I am not going to press you for an answer. | Mr. AnpErsoN. If we go into the question of constitutionality you must then contemplate being bored by me for two or three days; in fact, one can talk interminably about the economics or the legal phases of a proposition that is as complex and as difficult as one of this kind is. You gentlemen are quite entitled to your opinion; I am simply trying to give you mine, although I do not know that you will be influenced by it at all. But inasmuch as I represent a considerable industry which would be affected by the provisions of any bill which might be adopted by Congress, I feel justified in coming over here and giving you my opinion about how it would operate. Mr. Menges. That is all right. Mr. AsweLn. Mr. Menges said he was not in favor of doing anything that the Government could do itself. Does that mean he 1s not in favor of the provisions of the Haugen bill? 578

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