quote:Originally posted by Renegade Nation:quote:Originally posted by Jugflier:quote:Un-Constitutional government interfering with the markets/finance with powers that are not delegated to them...If government were stripped of the power to interfere (pass out favors)...all that you point out would be moot.
The commerce clause makes the "unconstitutional" meddling of the government in the economy Constitutional.
Wrong...we are only bound to what the state ratifying conventions agreed to...and as plainly can be seen...and has been commented on by several founding participants...if the Constitution was as elastic as some try to make it...it would NEVER have been ratified...
The Constitution, Article 1 sction 8
quote:Section. 8.
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
Section 10
quote:No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress.
These sections specifically gives congress the right to regulate interstate, as well as impose tarriffs and negotiate treaties.
All these things are directly linked to the economy.
Therefore your dream of an unregulated economy is a pipe dream and unconstitutional.
With all due respect.