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...second day, though, something like a plan began to emerge. A significant paragraph in Justice Roberts' AAA decision had said it was illegal for Congress to contract with farmers to submit to government regulation, but that Congress could still appropriate money to be spent under specific conditions to achieve a constitutional end. Therefore, let the Government, without making contracts to regulate future production, pay farmers after performance for conserving the fertility of their soil. Conservation of a natural resource might be construed as in "the general Welfare" although the chief means of conservation might be withdrawing land from cultivation...
...plan would simply be paid out of the Treasury. Whence it would come was a detail. The choice of new taxes under any name would be merely a matter of political convenience. Only thing agreed was that some $500,000,000 a year, about the same as under AAA, would be economically and politically desirable...
Significance. Not until the new "AAA" is drafted in the form of a bill will the New Deal know whether it is more than a stopgap, legally and economically. When that is known and when the public has had occasion to register its reaction there will still be time for Franklin Roosevelt to decide whether there will be any political advantage in advocating a Constitutional Amendment to short circuit Supreme Court interference with his economic plans. A new farm program had been conceived, but the politics of the farm issue was little further advanced than it had been...
Fortnight ago when the Supreme Court smashed AAA it left three related questions unanswered...
...What should become of some $200,000,000 of taxes which litigious processors in recent months deposited with U. S. courts pending a final decision on AAA...