The bourgeois in the communist manifesto refers to the elite, or the ones who have the means to control production. The proletariat refers to the ones who have to sell their labor. But it is immaterial as the ideas in the communist manifesto were about leveling the playing field and removing class distinctions by making the proletariat also the bourgeois.
The US is not a constitutional republic, it is a representative democracy.
The US government can not confiscate property without proper compensation. Read the 5th Ammendment. Any confiscation of property, including condemnation, has to go through the court system.
You can't grow produce year after year on the same land, or you simply leach out all of the resources and the land becomes barren. The government pays farmers not to grow crops because of soil richness. This preserves the quality of the soil and the produce grown.
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