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on Dec 13, 2010 | hide | past | favorite


Original opinion, since hardly anyone sees fit to link people to it: http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/121310virgi...

(Personally, seeing as how the Commerce Clause already allows Congress to regulate a simple act of commerce between me and my literal neighbor with things like the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2008/12/24/new-overreaching-toy-t... ) which has criminalized most garage sales, if the Commerce Act also empowers them to force me to engage in commerce with some entity, I'd like the Supreme Court, if it rules in favor of the government on this, to kindly provide some citations of things Congress is actually not allowed to do on account of the Commerce Clause, because I'm no longer able to come up with anything.)


Ezra Klein on why health care proponents are not too worried about this: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/12/is_the_h...




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