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"Hamilton wanted to make sure that no faulty implications were drawn regarding the notion of the federal government having only limited delegated powers. He worried about the implications of total silence regarding a particular governmental power. On the one hand, he argued in several of the Federalist Papers that unless a particular power was specifically delegated in a positive way to the federal government, it did not reside with the federal government.20 But on the other hand, later some people with an expansionist federal mind-set could argue that unless that particular power were specifically denied to the federal government, it held that power by implication. Hamilton worried that attaching a Bill of Rights with specific prohibitions would bolster the latter erroneous argument made by those desirous of expanding federal authority."

Now, we have what Hamilton feared, the silence on an issue being taken as power held by implication.

We also have taxation in a state becoming a block to business and internal revenue generation.
NY has taxed cigarettes to teh point that those in state who smoke are goin 60 miles or more out of the way to pay a mere 1.50 less for them.
In other words, other states are getting the business that NY would like to have, but moronically taxed until it went to other states.
Same with gasoline.
Those close to the borders of the state go where the gasoline is cheapest- usually for my area, Montague NJ and Matamoras PA. (1.71 a gallon and 1.74 a gallon respectively as of two days ago.)
NY has an insane rolling sales tax.
In some areas, it's 7.25%, in others, 8.17%.
It varies from area to area within the state!
And, people see the difference it makes in the totals on their receipts.