05/08/25 Afternoon CommStock Report- David’s Footnotes and More on Price Fixing Litigation

Footnote: Florida Governor DeSantis has been aggressive about removing undocumented workers from the labor force which has created a labor shortage in the state. In order to address that he supports allowing teenagers to work more hours doing more jobs. Federal labor law restricts “child labor”. While I think that we need more immigrants if we are going to reshore supply chains in a massive factory building reindustrialization, working as a teenager didn’t hurt me. Teenagers can do farm work because I know from experience. I was not 18 yet when I initially went to college. I of course worked on the farm, but also for a seed corn research company working in the field in the summers. My wife detasseled corn. Kids threw bales. We all walked soybeans. Roundup was literally a dream come true. I bought a couple extra gallons to put on the shelf in case they stop making it. Things were different with farm kids in the 1960’s. I was not allowed to go out for basketball as a freshman in high school because my dad needed me to run a plow. Today no one plows anymore and they would have thought my dad terrible for…