---------- >From: Patrick Chkoreff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [dgc.chat] Re: [e-gold-list] Re: Thanks to Ragnar/Planetgold and Stefan/TGC >Date: Fri, Aug 9, 2002, 10:08 AM >
>> > Eventually, federal laws will govern even the tomatoes grown in your >> > own back yard. .... You can already get in trouble for growing peanuts without a Federal license if your backyard is over an acre. (US Penal Code, Title 7, Section 1359A). They are not issuing any new licenses, so you either have to have inherited one or lease the right to grow peanuts from one of the few license holders. It is all part of the scheme to inflate the price of peanuts in the USA, which cost nearly twice as much as the world market. If you sell "non-quota" peanuts, the penalty is 140% of the price of the nuts. The government can collect by placing a lien on your house and everything you own, and can bring criminal charges against you for fraud for selling nuts as "quota" when they weren't. Maybe I should get into the peanut smuggling business. Anyone want to buy some bootleg nuts? - John --- http://cambist.net That reminds me of sugar too, since tariffs and quotas keep sugar prices so unbelievably higher than in the rest of the world. That is why we are forced to drink soda with inferior tasting corn syrup, while the rest of the world continues to use cane sugar, as US bottlers did before the government made the price prohibitive. --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
