Government Causes Formula Shortage, Now Offers Solution
When President Joe Biden cited the Defense Production Act in May as his authority to order an increase in baby-formula manufacturing due to the recent national shortage, it was just the latest step in using the Cold War law to give the president carte blanche to control the U.S. economy any way he sees fit.
No one disputes that the baby-formula shortage is real, and for those directly affected by it — parents with infant children — a serious problem. But, just as the federal government has misused the “Commerce Clause” found in the U.S. Constitution to expand its power and reach over the U.S. economy, using the Defense Production Act to order increased production of baby formula sets the precedent for the president to step in and control American businesses (economic fascism).
The national shortage of baby formula was directly caused by the federal government. In February, a baby-formula manufacturing plant in Sturgis, Michigan, was closed — by the federal government — after four infants who consumed products made there got sick, and two died, of bacterial infection.
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