Here was the first RED flag: particularly the power to regulate intrastate commerce That is so they can enforce taxing any purchases you make online or in another state.
Absolutely unconstitutional. And that is just the first red flag, this bill is full of them.
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Sorry, but that was declared a non-issue back in the 30's. According to the Supreme Court, the government can look at the aggregated effects of any intrastate production (like growing wheat for your own faarm's consumption), and note that it has interstate implications... and thus, the Feds can regulate it. Nice, isn't it?
Now, the silly little fact that ANYTHING, seen in the national aggregate, has interstate implications, should not trouble anyome. That "interstate commerce" clause is now just as powerful as the "general welfare" clause (which, by the way, had nothing to do with transfer payments to poor folk, when written)... and that Tenth Amendment might as well be written in invisible ink.