I don’t consider drugs, gambling and prostitution to be legitimate enterprises to be regulated. I can understand health regulations on prostitution, and I can see charging income tax on any income, legal or illegal, but I can’t see anyway to force the participants to pay their income tax, except maybe to make them file quarterly like independent contractors. I frankly, don’t care whether people gamble, do drugs or engage in prostitution, but I don’t like the societal problems that go along with the drugs, gambling and abuse of alcohol. Maybe we could set up places in every state where every vice is perfectly legal, where people don’t drive cars and can just stay until their money runs out. Then they can go to the Obamacare clinic and receive the drugs for assisted suicide. End of problem.
Let me ask this... if CA passes the measure to legalize marijuana, should it be able to enact such a program under the Tenth Amendment; or do you think the Commerce Clause authorizes fedgov to shut it down?