I am so with you, but I disagree that they are fools. They aren’t fools. They’re totalitarians who think they have the right to do whatever they please. It doesn’t matter if what they propose is a good idea or not. Washington DC has no moral or legal right to tell every American how to live. We are supposed to be free people, not slaves to their whims. Again, it doesn’t matter if even a majority agrees with the totalitarians. We have a constitution to (supposedly) protect political minorities from majority oppression. I’m sure some would say it’s “criminal” to charge someone $5 for a layaway plan, but I say it’s “criminal” for Washington DC to set regulations for layaway plans that have absolutely zero to do with interstate commerce. If they can control us down to something as small as this, I ask you. Where in the world does their power end???? And, yes. I’m yelling too.
According to the self-described originalist Scalia, it is virtually limitless:
...the authority to enact laws necessary and proper for the regulation of interstate commerce is not limited to laws governing intrastate activities that substantially affect interstate commerce. Where necessary to make a regulation of interstate commerce effective, Congress may regulate even those intrastate activities that do not themselves substantially affect interstate commerce.
J.Scalia, concurring in Raich