Pa. Farmers Union to sue Block over milk tax
HARRISBURG - Pennsylvania
Farmers Union’s executive
director, Carl Kaufman, has an
nounced that his organisation will
file suit against USDA Secretary
John Block, in federal circuit
court, several days before USDA
intends to begin the
gross receipts tax from dairy
fanners. , ,
Fanners Union will petition for a
new injunction against USDA’s
collection of the 50 crate per
hundredweight levy, which is
scheduled to become effective
April 16. ..
Kaufman said he anticipates
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tbat several other producer groups
may Join Farmers Union as co
pi«intlff« in the suit Considering
the cost of litigation, Kaufman,
said. Fanners Union welcomes
additional plaintiffs, either silent
or on the record.
Secretary Block’s most recent
announcement is to the effect that
USDA will begin by collecting only
the first SO cents. Collection of the
second 50 cents per hundredweight
will be delayed, according to
Block, to give Congress time to
adopt more appropriate
legislation. USDA plans to start
levying the second 50 cents by late
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summer if the matter has not been
resolved by the Congress by Aug.
1.
After the South Carolina federal
court issued an injunction against
USDA’s earlier collectioei at
tempts, because of flaws in the
agency’s pre-collection public
notice and .invitation for public
comments, USDA started over, re
doing the required preliminary
procedure.
Fanners Union organized in
Washington with 50 members from
Pennsylvania Joining dairy far
mers from across the nation who
visited members ol Congress on
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Tuesday and Wednesday to urge
that Congress replace tbe present
law with a measure recently in
troduced by Congressman James
Oberstar (D. Minn.). Oberstar’s
bill would establish a base price of
70% of parity which would be
guaranteed to producers who
reduce their production by the
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amount specified by USDA (b
uniform percentage redaction for
all producers). Those producers
who refuse to reduce production,
or worse, insist on increasing their
production, would be subject to
progressive deductions from their
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