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Nothing. Build away. Good luck getting a zoning permit though.

Good, you got a quote from the dictionary. Good thing the constitution disagrees with you.

The constitution gives the government the right to tax and control business.
Not only that, they control the money supply through monetary policy; setting
interests rates, controlling banks and etc.

The 16th Amendment of the Constitution is one of the clauses that gives government the
right to tax.

In 1913, the Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. It empowered
Congress to tax "incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among
the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."

https://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/article01/33.html#5

U.S. Constitution: Article I

Section 1.

All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States,
which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

Section 2.

The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by
the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications
requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.

No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty five
Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when
elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.

Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may
be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be
determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to
Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other
Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of
the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such
Manner as they shall by Law direct. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one
for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; and until
such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse
three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut
five, New-York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six,
Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three.

The government does have the right to tax (which I think is wrong, but anyway...), but not control a private business.

So, let's say you own a bar. Can you serve alcohol to minors? No, because the
government controls business practices in regards to regulated substances.

Nope.

A good example of how the federal, state and local governments control certain subtances
and products that are known to be dangerous, through the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco
and Firearms.

They also didn't make it illegal, now did they (well they did, but you know what happened there)?

They did make it illegal with Volstead's National Prohibition Act in 1919, but in 1933
prohibition was repealed by the adoption of the 21st Amendment. Alcoholic beverages are
still illegal in some counties. The feds left it up to the individual states to decide.

A dry county is a county in the United States whose government forbids the sale of
alcoholic beverages. There are hundreds of dry counties across the United States, although
they are most common in the South and Mid-West. Although the 21st Amendment
repealed the prohibition of alcohol, many local governments never re-legalized the sale of
alcohol, maintaining a "dry" (which basically means alcohol free) environment. There are
also smaller jurisdictions which prohibit the sale of alcoholic beverages, such as dry
towns.

I wish it was illegal here. s***, drunks annoy the hell out of me.

Indiana you can't buy it on Sunday....I never understood that. Some religious thing I think.

It seems that you think the trans fat thing is a joke, too. The ban of alcoholic beverage
sales on sunday may be a religious thing, but the point is that people can say how things
are run, in their own towns.

Yes, I do think it's a joke. Dumb a** people that can't make a choice on their own so they need the government to control the actions of everyone so they don't have to think. It's a big f***ing joke.

I wasted all that time and information and you still have no clue.

They should be able to say all they want. When they think they can control someone else is where it should end.