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thebigshane on Dec 30, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ron Paul speaks against SOPA

You are absolutely right. And that is what makes the constitution important, to be that "federal guarantee".

I'd like to comfort you that "taxes for crossing state borders" could never happen but I'm not sure I can justify that. I was hoping the Commerce Clause would say something there but I couldn't find anything. Maybe somebody else could find something on this bit of a hole in the libertarian philosophy?

jbooth on Dec 30, 2011 [–]

I think most readings of the commerce clause prohibit taxes on crossing state lines, it was just an example of game theory gone awry.

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