Regardless what FDRs state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices wanted everybody to believe about the scope of Congresss Commerce Clause powers (1.8.3), note that a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified the following about Congresss constitutionally limited powers.
Not only have the states never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate INTRAstate commerce, but also that Congress is also prohibited from appropriating taxes in the name of state power issues, basically anything that it cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” - Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
So regarding Congresss Section 8-limited powers where federal domestic policy is concerned, if you hear politicians promising funding for anything not connected with the US Mail Service (1.8.7), then you can bet it is unconstitutional and be right most of the time.
So what is so difficult about keeping an eye on federal politicians?
“So what is so difficult about keeping an eye on federal politicians? “
I don’t have the time or the inclination to pore over pieces of 2000+ page legislation to see if/where anything devious is hidden within.
I ought to be able to go about my life without waking up to find that half of my gun collection is now illegal, or that more of my paycheck is being looted to give to people I wouldn’t allow in my house. /rant