WhoIsJohnGalt wrote:
While I agree with your ingenious plan, I would not make it the law. Why? Because government has no business in business. It is intended to defend our rights from threats outside the nation and from thieves and murders inside our country. It is also supposed to act as an arbiter in honest disputes between individuals, but such an ability does not allow it to regulate business.
Actually, I have to disagree with you there.
Constitution of the United States; Article 1; Section 8 wrote:
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;
To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; This one's been violated for decades. The current DHS expansion also constitutes a violation.
To provide and maintain a Navy; The only service (including the Marines) mandated by the Constitution in perpetuity.
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the M*****a to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress I**********ns and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the M*****a, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the M*****a according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;--And
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
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Pay particular attention to the areas marked in bold print. This gives Congress the power to legislate over all business conducted EXCEPT business that is conducted by citizens within a single state. So, the government may not make laws governing how you conduct business with a neighbor within your state borders. Once you have established diversity of citizenship (two parties from differing states) then the government has the authority to legislate said business.
Don't take this as support. However, it's in the Constitution. In fact, it's the taxation clause at the beginning that the Supreme Court established the viability of Obamacare.