re: How does the FTC have the authority to do this - Non Compete ?

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Do they benefit from corporate/LLC taxation at the federal level?

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We already know you are a fool. Please. You don’t have to keep convincing us.

Once the SCOTUS rules on Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and ditches the Chevron Rule, this agency and others will not be able to try this.

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Do these companies engage in interstate commerce?

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Ah, yes. The "everything imaginable is interstate commerce so therefore administrative agencies can do whatever they want" argument.

If the federal government wants to regulate state contract law, Congress needs to do it, or authorize the FTC to do it. Congress has not done so.

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Also, why would states want to infringe on individual freedom?

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The "why" doesn't matter. Contract law and policy is the States' prerogative.