Adam Cohen wants us to believe that if SCOTUS were to overturn Wickard v. Filburn and its progeny children would be forced into factories, workers would be exploited, all old people would be poor, dithering idiots, minimum wage laws would disappear, and FDR would roll over in his grave.
As for the last two - great! Minimum wage laws inhibit on the freedom to contract. Thanks to FDR we're stuck with a nanny state, so it would be wonderful to begin to "undo the New Deal" and send FDR 'a spinnin'.
As to kids in factories - we have another horrible law called "No Child Left Behind" - and I don't think it stands for the proposition that kids are gonna be forced into manual labor in "polluted" factories. It is safe to say that the kiddies will be protected even if SCOTUS were to overturn Wickard.
Our standard of living has increased exponentially since the Great Depression. The life expectancy has increased and our citizens are capable of working longer than they were in the 30s and 40s. Today's economy is more service oriented than labor intensive. In other words, we're not gonna see Grandpa out there building houses if we overturn Wickard.
Cohen is simply adhering to the Left's long time practice of trying to scare people into complacency. America is tired of this sort of abject paternalism. Hopefully, SCOTUS is as well.
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