Comment Re:Simple (Score 1) 1140
If your restaurant services travelers on the interstate, you not only participate in the national economy by serving out-of-state guests, but you surely get almost all of your goods by way of the external economy, not local growers. You are only facially a part of the state economy--in reality, you're engaging in massive amounts of interstate commerce!
When I buy food, it's usually at a grocery store down the street or at a restaurant within my own town. When I put gas in my car, it's from the gas station around the corner. When I buy clothes, they are from clothes stores within a few miles of my house.
Now it's true that these stores probably buy their goods from out of state, so I have no problems with Congress exercising their authority of regulating commerce over their transactions with their out-of-state vendors, but my transactions take place entirely within the state where I live, so they should be keeping their hands off!
When I buy food, it's usually at a grocery store down the street or at a restaurant within my own town. When I put gas in my car, it's from the gas station around the corner. When I buy clothes, they are from clothes stores within a few miles of my house.
Now it's true that these stores probably buy their goods from out of state, so I have no problems with Congress exercising their authority of regulating commerce over their transactions with their out-of-state vendors, but my transactions take place entirely within the state where I live, so they should be keeping their hands off!
