…businesses at minimal or no (tax) cost–from interstate roadways to easy rights to exploit national lands owned by the public; from localo fire protection to federally funded international security; from…

…applauds the so-called “creative destruction” that tears existing companies apart to sell off the pieces for more or to enable firing the workers and breaking a union contract, those activities…

…vegetables is interstate, but the “liberty” protected against the federal government by the Fifth Amendment would doubtless be interpreted to forbid such an imposition, just as it would be interpreted…

…income tax increases cause little or no interstate migration. Low taxes can prevent a state from maintaining the kinds of high-quality public services that potential migrants value. Also highlighted are…

…finally—finally—start refuting the Republicans’ economics proposals with actual examples and statistics, was not prompted by my repeated laments here that Obama just doesn’t do specifics, i.e., statistics and other facts,…

…of the commerce clause? Or is it a mystery known only to those who “actually know the law,” as opposed to those of us who worry about little things like…

…not participatory, acts. So let’s start with what we know: i= r + πe Nick Rowe apparently would have us believe his (completely understandable) claim that i would not be…

…the meaning of “proper[ly]” “regulat[ing]” interstate “commerce,” that takes us back to the points already made about Congress’s delegated power in this area. * * * That brings me to…

…Washington state minimum-wage statute and said the Constitution does not include an absolute right to contract freely. The opinion held that states are entitled to restrict liberty of contract in…

by Beverly Mann Laurence Tribe on the ACA … and the Supreme Court justices Argggh. In rereading my comment from yesterday to Bruce’s “Health Care ACA Act: Who does the…