| ▲ | kube-system 2 days ago | |||||||
Interstate commercial services absolutely existed at the founding of the US, e.g: labor, transportation, banking, etc. Labor is a commercial service that has existed back to prehistoric times. Ultimately, it seems you are arguing originalism, which is an opinion of interpretation that a minority of justices hold. | ||||||||
| ▲ | krapp 2 days ago | parent [-] | |||||||
I'm not arguing that services didn't exist. I'm arguing that the Interstate Commerce clause was originally intended to apply to physical goods being transported across state lines. You could transport physical money across state lines. You couldn't transport "a banking" across state lines. You could transport horses, humans and machines. You couldn't transport "a labor." Every one of these things comes down to some physical item that could be taxed as it crossed a border. That was the entire point of it. So "data" and "information" don't count. Nothing exists that actually crosses state lines. | ||||||||
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