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Re: Explain Your Political Philosophy
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Originally Posted by EagleTed
I understand your argument, otoh, regulate interstate commerce could imply all aspects of a business engaged in interstate commerce. It was the justification for OSHA, EPA, and Labor Laws dealing with minimum wage.
Even allowing for such regs to be imposed on interstate business, it still wouldn't allow those regs to be imposed upon everyone, which has clearly happened.
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Well, when we start implying we end up where we are. This was not the intent of the founders. The commerce clause intent was to make regular the trade of goods and services between states to avoid things like embargos and taxation. I totally agree that one role of the federal govt is to prevent one states actions infringing on another states freedom, which would include industrial pollution, but this more likely falls under protecting the soveriengty of states, not regulation of commerce.
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-Thomas Jefferson
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