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> Congress doesn’t have the ability to pass national rent control, for example

Rent control should be easy to fit within "general welfare".






Congress not only _could_ control rents nationally, congress _has_ controlled rents nationally [1] and those controls survived the review of the court.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Price_Control_Act_of...




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