American sugar producers argue, with complete aplomb, that the price-support program operates at no cost to taxpayers.

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While Article I of the Constitution limits Congress to regulating interstate commerce, the court has taken a broad view of those powers, up to and including prohibiting a farmer from growing wheat for his own consumption because it might interfere with a national price-support program.

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