Eggs and States' Rights

Originally posted by normbenign
Face it, Cali is being picked on due to the size of its market. If Wyoming or Rhode Island made the same ruling nobody would give a hoot.

Still interstate commerce goes on except for caged chicken eggs to Cali. It could well be a bonanza to producers in the other States of free range eggs.

"Face it, Cali is being picked on due to the size of its market."

The suit mentions that.

Originally posted by no1marauder
Rather unsurprisingly the right wing, pro-business American Enterprise Institute (founded in 1938 to fight the New Deal) agrees with Missouri:

Quoting Hamilton in the Federalist Papers, the majority opinion in the Carbone case reads: [b]“The central rationale for the rule against discrimination is to prohibit state or municipal laws whose object is lo ...[text shortened]... egg farmers from competition from States that don't share those preferences is unconstitutional.

The article says 20%. And you grab at that as ultimate truth. Obama said you can keep your plan if you like it.

I just went to the store in suburban Detroit, and free range eggs were double, that is with a competitive choice. You think that the price will come down without the competition? Back to ECON 101.