🧵🚨 1. Everyone should know the story of Roscoe Filburn, a farmer from Ohio who found himself in the crosshairs of…

🧵🚨 1. Everyone should know the story of Roscoe Filburn, a farmer from Ohio who found himself in the crosshairs of one of the most absurd federal overreaches in history. It’s a tale of government control over the most basic of American freedoms—growing your own wheat.

2. In 1938, Congress passed the Agricultural Adjustment Act so the feds could dictate how much wheat Americans could grow on their land. They set quotas, telling farmers like Roscoe Filburn exactly how many acres of wheat they could plant. Notice was sent on cards like this one.

3. Roscoe Filburn was just trying to feed his livestock, feed his family, and keep some for seeds. He planted 23 acres, not because he wanted to flood the market but because he needed it for his farm’s survival. The government said, “No, you can plant wheat on only 11.1 acres.”

4. So, they slapped him with a fine for the extra wheat he grew—wheat that never left his farm, never entered interstate commerce. You heard that right - they fined him for self-sufficiency. This isn’t about commerce; it’s about control, folks.

5. Filburn took this to court, arguing that his wheat wasn’t for sale, it was for his own use & thus wasn’t within Congress’s power to regulate interstate commerce. But the Supreme Court said, “Even if your wheat’s just for you and never entered interstate commerce, the feds can regulate it—because if everyone did what you did, it’d affect the interstate wheat market.”

6. This ruling in Wickard v. Filburn expanded federal power under the Commerce Clause to an insane degree. It meant the government could regulate anything—even noneconomic activity entirely within one state—that might, in some theoretical way, affect interstate commerce.

7. Here’s the kicker: This wasn’t about protecting consumers or ensuring fair trade; it was about controlling supply and demand to manipulate prices. It’s federal bureaucrats deciding that you can’t grow extra wheat because it might make prices drop.

8. The sheer audacity to tell an American farmer he can’t grow food for his own use on his own land is a mockery of liberty. It’s government overreach at its finest, wrapped in legalese to sound like it’s for the “greater good.”

9. We need to remember this story when we talk about government regulation. If they can control how much wheat you grow, they can control anything. It’s time we push back against this kind of overreach and restore the freedoms that make America, America.

10. So, next time someone tells you regulation is just for “public interest,” remember Roscoe Filburn. Remember how far the government will go to dictate, control, and fine for something as fundamental as growing wheat on your own land. #Liberty #GovernmentOverreach

11. Some 82 years after the Supreme Court decided Wickard v. Filburn, the federal government remains mired in nearly every aspect of human existence—including many of the minute details of farming—under the Commerce Clause.

12. Absent some other nexus to federal authority, the U.S. government should have no authority over purely intrastate activities like labor, agriculture, manufacturing, and mining—even though they might in the aggregate affect interstate markets in some tangential way.

13. Congress and President Trump, with an assist from @DOGE, have the rare opportunity in 2025 to revisit the government overreach that’s been afflicting Americans since the New Deal Era. It’s time to return power to where it belongs—to the states and to the American people!

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