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Exactly. For example, imagine if Texas decided it would no longer allow people who have out of state driver’s licenses to drive in the state. All the other states will quickly ban Texas drivers from driving in their states as well. And we are the same country.

In fact, I’d say a ban is at least a decade overdue and our Congress is to blame as usual.

Edit: I mean a ban on social media networks controlled by China PR, not a ban on Texas drivers!

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And not just long overdue for the internet. It’s long overdue in trade.

Ban trade?

Why ban trade between consenting adults?

Unidirectional free trade isn't free trade.

What do you mean by unidirectional trade? Someone giving you stuff for free and getting nothing in return?

I'd take that offer any day!

Drivers on I-10 in Louisiana would like to ban Texas drivers.

bzzzt look at concealed carry reciprocity, there is no precedent in the US for laws in one state to impact another, and in fact this is a cornerstone of Federalism

I am sorry, but this is written into the Constitution of the United States of America:

Article IV, Section 1:

Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/article-4/sec...

It is not even an amendment. It was there from the start.

Tons of laws from the different states affect each other.

...only when Federal law overrides State law (this should be obvious)

so in my example, there is no Federal carry reciprocity law, so states can clobber each other at will

likewise, there is no Federal Drivers License, so you get some states that share license info with each other, some that don't...and they aren't compelled

Congress gets to decide what reciprocity states must have. Driver's Licenses are one of those. Every US state must accept every other US state's licenses.

Congress did not decide that concealed carry had reciprocity.

The entire "legalizing gay marriage" argument was if states had to be forced to accept same-sex marriages from other states where it was legal.

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