Posted on 04/01/2011 4:53:52 PM PDT by jazusamo
State lawmakers are fed up with the federal government micromanaging their lives. The South Carolina Senate is scheduled to strike back Tuesday with a bill that asserts the 10th Amendment right of the state to tell Washington to take a hike when it comes to the sale of incandescent light bulbs manufactured within state borders.
Ever since then-President George W. Bush signed into law the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, the clock has been ticking on Thomas Edison’s venerable incandescent. Unless Congress acts before Jan. 1, 2012, federal bureaucrats will begin their campaign to foist the mostly Chinese-made, compact fluorescent bulbs on a public that has shown no interest in buying them on the free market.
Palmetto State lawmakers aren’t interested in waiting for the feds to see the light. The “South Carolina Incandescent Light Bulb Freedom Act” declares any fixture that bears the stamp “Made in South Carolina” is a product of intrastate commerce and thus “is not subject to federal law or federal regulation.” State Rep. William E. Sandifer III, chairman of the South Carolina House Labor, Commerce and Industry Committee, told The Washington Times that the measure he co-sponsored has a very good chance of becoming law. “I believe that it is improper for the federal government to tell us as citizens what light bulbs we can use to light our own private homes or businesses,” he explained. “I think the feds have overstepped our 10th Amendment constitutional rights as they’ve so often done under the Commerce Clause.”
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I distinctly remember, during the 2000 campaign, when GW first said "compassionate conservative" and i thought, "uh oh." But the alternative was vastly worse...
And consider the alternatives the Democrats have offered.
In my view, you have to go back to 1968 to find somebody who wasn't corrupt or incompetent.
I would have to go back to 1908, but William Jennings Bryan was no prize either.
Why don’t they just re-label incandescents as “Heat Lamps”?
I doubt the law would apply if they did.
Gee, I wish I lived there.
Well, we know how the federal fascists will take care of that lofty ideal....if a half-inch filament is shipped into a light bulb factory from another state, the transaction will be pounced on and immediately ruled "INTERstate commerce".
See my tag line.....
Leni
No doubt you’re right, the feds will say it’s interstate if the ink for the packaging is from another state.
Love that tag line :-)
Well not a house.
And Freedom..
Ugh, my son put four of those stupid curly bulbs in his nice vanity light fixture. Not happening here. I’m hoarding.
Bookmark
I love your graphic! lol
Thank you for making me smile. ;o)
There will be now. Better import some Chinamen to work there.
If it passes, I’d be willing to bet that there’d then be light bulb smugglers driving out of the state with trunkloads full of the bulbs.
And federal government officials trying to arrest them.
Valero isn’t Venezuelan, it’s based in Texas.
Citgo is, through.
FR definitely needs a “Like” button :-)
Uhhhhhh. Yes.
-——beginning with refusing to send any money to the damable fools of DC———
For the record, exactly what money flows to the Federal government through the hands of the states?
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