Elsewhere, I encountered some maleducated person who claimed that State minimum wage laws were Federally unconstitutional. Egads, someone on the internet was being wrong at me! Naturally, I had to respond to educate this poor, benighted soul.
State laws do not depend upon the US Constitution, but upon their own State Constitutions. Which, of course, may not conflict with the US Constitution.
In other words, States can set minimum and maximum wage laws as they so desire. States can mandate every employer pay every employee a $10,000 bonus on the anniversary of their employment. States can mandate that every adult citizen of their State must register to vote and own an operable firearm with at least 100 rounds of appropriate ammunition. States can mandate that every motor vehicle operable upon State roads must be registered monthly and carry a minimum of one million dollars in liability insurance. States can mandate that every employee who potentially has access to a pool of water more than 1″ deep (to include common sinks) must wear full SCUBA apparatus at all times while working, as a safety measure to prevent drownings.
States can do lots of silly things. Doesn’t mean they’re good ideas. Laws have little to do with right and wrong - except in the eye of the law.
And they should do different things, so I can enjoy making fun of people who live in states without Constitutional carry.
ReplyDelete"States can do lots of silly things." Look at Commiefornia, they're taking it to an absurd level. HENCE, we moved to Tennessee, a rather more "grounded" state.
ReplyDeleteAnd New York wanted to regulate how much CO2 one can put into the atmosphere, but Hochul now realizes that it was not such a good idea because it drives up prices to insane levels. She hasn’t realized that there is no benefit to reducing NYS’s carbon footprint.
ReplyDeleteNYC already has an insane fine system in place if buildings >25,000 square feet don’t reduce their carbon footprint by 30% by ripping out their gas or oil boilers and replacing them with heat pumps. The problem is that the natural gas or oil used to generate the electricity has its own carbon footprint which works out to a very small savings at a very high cost. To learn more google NYC local law 97.