Classy response to a post that wasn't even directed at you.
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Classy response to a post that wasn't even directed at you.
Libertarians are just Republicans who smoke pot.
Trump's crimes never bother Trumpers.
Disagreed. Libertarians are State's Rights and small Federal government Republicans...who smoke pot. LOL
State's Rights...to do what?
Smoke pot.
Why is that a "state's right"? Does pot magically change when you cross a state border or something?
Do you understand the meaning and intent of the 10th Amendment? Why should Republicans in Congress be able to tell a state they can't sell pot?
https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-10/
Tenth Amendment
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
I do, DO YOU?
The 10th Amendment isn't a blanket amendment that gives every single power to the state.
So how is pot a state issue when it is cultivated, transported, and sold across state lines? Wouldn't that fall under the general welfare clause of the Constitution?
Yes.
What does it mean to you then?
Let's say it's abortion. Do you think the Federal government should be able to tell a state they can't have an abortion? Or, if abortion is allowed in a state, that pregnant women can't travel to another state for an abortion?
The 10th Amendment? Nothing, because you could make an argument that anything and everything could fall under the general welfare clause because nothing affects a state in a vacuum. No state has problems unique to just the state.
State borders are pointless and meaningless at this late stage of capitalism and democratic decline.
We gain nothing by having states decide universal rights.
No, and I don't think a state should tell a patient that either.
So you want a STATE to tell a woman she can't get an abortion instead of the federal government guaranteeing that right?
Why?
Abortion would be health care, would it not?
And health care is general welfare, is it not?
So why are states in the business of limiting people's Constitutional health care, and why are you in the business of defending them?
Life is Golden
The Sage
No, it is not.
...and that's exactly the Democratic view of not just the 10th, but the entire Constitution.
What the fuck would you know about it? You haven't seen a vagina in 50 years.
Your view makes no sense because health care is the same no matter where it is given.
Abortions in Texas are no different than abortions in Massachusetts.
Just like algebra in Texas is no different than algebra in Massachusetts.
It's the same algebra, so what is gained by posturing that teaching algebra is a state issue?
Does algebra not count outside the state you learn it in????
The thinking that States have rights is cute, but not realistic since we live in a national economy within which commerce routinely happens across state lines, whereas 240 years ago, it didn't so much.
Translation: Why have a Constitution when the Federal government provides everything we need?
Someone sits at a computer that was manufactured overseas, connected to the internet by a company based in Pennsylvania, sold by a company based in Washington, transported across the country by a company based in Texas, and delivered to the consumer in Florida.
We already live in a world where States' Rights is moot.
"States' Rights" is just code for discrimination at the state level.
The answer to your question is in the question.