Check-Off Question

[Tex]

Article I section VIII of the constitution, the commerce clause as well as the 10th amendment. If animals don't cross state lines like the Montana raised label ( or whatever they call it) it is intrastate commerce not interstate, therefore the federal law requiring the checkoff can't apply.

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I am very familiar with the Commerce Clause but I just wanted to know what you were saying.

You make a good point.




Tex

 

[Ben H]

Article I section VIII of the constitution, the commerce clause as well as the 10th amendment. If animals don't cross state lines like the Montana raised label ( or whatever they call it) it is intrastate commerce not interstate, therefore the federal law requiring the checkoff can't apply.

 

[Tex]

Article I section VIII of the constitution, the commerce clause as well as the 10th amendment. If animals don't cross state lines like the Montana raised label ( or whatever they call it) it is intrastate commerce not interstate, therefore the federal law requiring the checkoff can't apply.

You know, of course, that since it does benefit the meat packers, none of this matters. In the end, in Washington and in the courts, it is money and power that matters, not principles.

Tex

 

[Ben H]

The only argument is Wickard v. Filburn, but that case was a terrible ruling and needs to challenged.