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04-22-2015 07:56 AM |
All regulations do is take power from businesses, which can fail and go away, and give it to governments, which barring an armed revolution, we are stuck with and only exist to accumulate more power.
The word "regulate" is a case study in this. The Constitution grants the federal government the ability to "regulate interstate commerce". When the Constitution was written, the word "regulate" was a synonym for "facilitate", and the commerce clause was understood to mean that it gave the federal government the ability to break down barriers in trade between the states--by striking down laws that raised tariffs on or effectively banned the importation of goods from other states. Through 200+ years of government loosening the rules that were meant to constrain it, the courts have changed the word "regulate" to instead mean "control", and "interstate commerce" now means "all commerce". So a phrase that once meant that the federal government could break down barriers in commerce between the states now means it has the ability to control all commerce.
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