SB 736 and HB 1685 will foster competition in the Texas statewide electricity market by eliminating the authority of the General Land Office (GLO) to sell electricity to certain governmental entities. This will decrease government interference and increase efficiency in the Texas electricity market.
The federal machine gun ban rests on a dangerous constitutional theory
If possession alone counts as interstate commerce, Congress can regulate almost anything. Think back to fourth-grade American history. We learned why the Articles of Confederation failed and why the Constitution replaced them. One major problem was that states struggled to trade with one another and often tried to protect local interests by taxing or restricting...