Start with defining commerce. The American Heritage Dictionary gives us this definition: The buying and selling of goods, especially on a large scale, as between cities or nations.
Next thing is to define goods. This is from the Business Dictionary:
General: Anything other than money, real estate, or services.
Commerce: Inherently useful and relatively scarce tangible item (article, commodity, material, merchandise, supply, wares) produced from agricultural, construction, manufacturing, or mining activities.
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Economics: Commodity, or a physical, tangible item that satisfies some human want or need, or something which people find useful or desirable and make an effort to acquire it. Goods that are scarce (are in limited supply in relation to demand) are called ‘economic goods,’
Now define service:
Definition
Intangible products that are not goods (tangible products), such as accounting, banking, cleaning, consultancy, education, insurance, know how, medical treatment, transportation. Sometimes services are difficult to identify because they are closely associated with a good; such as the combination of a diagnosis with the administration of a medicine. No transfer of possession or ownership takes place when services are sold, and they (1) cannot be stored or transported, (2) are instantly perishable, and (3) come into existence at the time they are bought and consumed. See also service.
The democrats are trying to use the commerce clause to regulate a service industry.
Brilliant! Thanks for parsing it out so clearly.
Send that same text to Senator Jim DeMint and he’ll use it as ammo! He’s one of our best fighters against this intrusive unconstitutional power grab at the moment!
http://demint.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.Home
The first rule of any good Marxist when they seize power is throw away the dictionaries. Then they can play with words a la 1984