It is an open sophistry for conflating actual interstate commerce with potential interstate commerce, as though you could be charged with "potential murder" for possessing a handgun. It completely eviscerated the Commerce Clause' limitations on Congress' powers over the economy.
The Founders were not fools: they knew control over commerce was one of the principle sources of corruption and despotism in government, which is why Congress' powers were limited. To put it bluntly, Congress has no authority over my production and possession of anything unless I cross state lines with it.
Let’s start by limiting food exports until we feed everyone here. They can have the left-overs that we don’t stockpile for bad years.
Another travesty is the setting of beef prices by people that have never been on a ranch to know what it takes to raise them.
Can the chicoms own any aspect of it?
It sounds like a good start.
In the Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas has been championing the claw back of the insane interpretation of the Commerce Clause for decades.
Funny a guy named Angus co-sponsored the bill. :-)
Wickard needs to be over turned.
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Defund the Deep State to stop this type of over-reaching nonsense.
Cut the federal budget for all non-military bureaucracies to 25% or less of current expenditures
so they don’t have the money to keep the federal boot on our throats.
“This lack of local control has led to unintended consequences “
Sure. Unintended.