Missouri_Mike
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- Nov 5, 2012
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Nah, based on your posts here I got the right asshole.You left wing assholes expanded the commerce clause to encompass pretty much any interaction that can be conceived yet now you want to ratchet it down? Are you kidding me?If it's unnecessary to begin with what would be the purpose of spending public funds to go in the first place, so what are they threatening to withhold? Nothing?
And no I didn't make anything up, one of the purposes of the commerce clause to keep trade regular among the various States. If a State embargoes goods from another State or prohibits travel to that State then they are interfering with regular commerce. If the embargoed State can prove harm then they have cause for a federal court action.
There could be plenty of instances where travel to Indiana from New York, for example, might occur but not be necessary to the functioning of the state of NY or its government. Conferences, research studies, joint training of some sort amongst law enforcement agencies, etc. I assume that is the kind of thing on which public funds can not be spent.
That is an entirely different thing from an embargo of Indiana. Has any state prevented private citizens or companies from doing business with or traveling to Indiana?
Have you not been following the discussion, private entities don't even figure into the subject.
I'm still waiting for you to show us where in the constitution a state is required to spend public funds for unnecessary travel.
No such requirement exists. Making your 'commerce clause' violation an impossibility.
I'm not the one arguing that the commerce clause mandates that states spend public funds on unnecessary travel. You're barking at the wrong 'asshole'.