Abuse Quote by Dan Smoot

It is very certain that [the commerce clause] grew out of the abuse of the power by the importing States in taxing the non-importing,…

— James Madison

Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred.

— Robert Toombs

Congress has broad powers to regulate and control commerce. Congress also cannot force a state to 'un-decriminalize' something; states' rights are routinely upheld by…

— Matt Gaetz

Complex regulation in place of simple-rules capitalism disrupts market processes and corrupts business incentives.

— Robert L. Bradley, Jr

In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a…

— Henry Charles Carey

Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, of course, lays out the delegated, enumerated, and therefore limited powers of Congress. Only through a deliberate…

— Ed Crane

If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything-and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited…

— Clarence Thomas

Congress realized that it was inherently unfair to penalize Americans by requiring them to pay taxes on taxes they had already paid.

— Tom Suozzi

“After a series of campaign scandals involving secret donations from the newly rich industrial barons in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Progressives…

— Jane Mayer

Tariffs, government contracts, naval and military spending, nationalized industries, tax policy, social welfare, the legal privileging of labor unions were among the means at…

— Ralph Raico

Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were dealing with…

— John Moody

Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of…

— Ayn Rand