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Re: Senate committee approves repeal of 65 mph limit



John Horner (GNKP18A@prodigy.com) wrote:
: jpmork@primenet.com (Jim Mork) wrote:
: >
: >
: >Not a good thing if your a states-rightist?  Build your own highways and 

: >thumb your nose at Washington.  I'm not a rightist, but somehow it seems 

: >to me this ought to be what they'd want to do.

: Interestingly enough the writers of the constitution were states-
: rightists,
: and no-one has ever bothered ammending the relevant sections of
: the constitution.

: The increase in federal powers has been accomplished through 
: legislative and legal sleight-of-hand moves.  Two major techniques
: have been used:  

: 1)  Call everything the regulation of interstate
: commerce.   This has been broadly interpreted to allow the federal
: gov't to ensure a "level playing field" in commercial competition
: by applying the same costly regulations to everyone everywhere.

: 2)  Take everyone's money, then apply special conditions for
: the state and local government's to get some of it back.  Remember,
: all federal tax payers could just as well be paying those taxes
: to state and local authorities directly.  The speed limit laws have
: used this trick.  The problem is that no state can easily afford to
: give up getting it's money back.  After all, the money was collected
: in the states in the first place!

Article I, section 8 also gives Congress broad authority to raise taxes 
and spend money "to provide for the general welfare."  When the founders 
put such broad language in, it's hard to believe they weren't doing it on 
purpose.

: Did you notice that the recent Supreme Court decision on the guns
: near schools law struck down the law on the basis of their
: being no federal jurisdiction under which that law could possibly
: be enacted?   I'm not for guns in our schools, but I do agree that
: such laws and regulations are a local matter best kept out of 
: Washington.

And the administration has already sent a new schools gun law to Congress 
that bans any gun which has been in interstate commerce from being near a 
school.





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