it is hard for me to answer this without becoming political but I will try. States are ruled by the fed, even though the 10th amendment makes it unconstitutional. the fed uses 2 primary clubs to accomplish this. One is your own tax money. the second is the commerce law. originally the commerce law was put in place to prevent one state taking unfair tax advantage of another when products crossed their boarders that was the intended use of the commerce clause. what they have done is applied that law to control every thing that crosses a state boarder in any way. the enforcement is supplied by the tax money collected from you The individual nation state citisan. i.e. the U.S. attorneys office tells the Governor of a state, you either pass a seat belt law or we will with hold highway funds until you do. in today's mobile society and trade the commerce clause can be applied to almost any thing you do.
It most certainly will be applied to the scrap industry. where there is a possible source of income you will find hundreds of government lawyers from the city to the federal government attempting to find a way to get more "revenue". just do a little history research, this is not a political statement but, a statement of fact.
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