How a Balanced Budget Amendment Gives the Feds Power Over Whatever They Want – Part 2

Coach is Right ^ | 1/25/16 | Publius Huldah

[Oldpuppymax]

All federal and State officials take an oath to support the federal Constitution (Art. VI, clause 3). When people in Congress appropriate funds for objects not listed in the Constitution [Art. I]; and when State officials accept federal funds for objects not listed, they violate their oath to support the Constitution. According to the PEW Report, federal funds provided an average of 30% of the States’ revenue for FY 2013. Look up your State HERE. Were those federal funds used to implement unconstitutional federal programs in your State?

Power over education, medical care, agriculture, state and local law enforcement, environment, etc., is not delegated to the federal government; those powers are reserved by the States or the People. Congress spends on objects for which it has no constitutional authority; and bribes States with federal funds to induce them to implement unconstitutional federal programs. It was the unconstitutional spending which gave us this crushing $19 Trillion debt.

How do we go about downsizing the federal government to its constitutional limits?

We stop the unconstitutional and frivolous spending one can read about all over the internet.

We begin the shutdown of unconstitutional federal departments and agencies by selecting for immediate closure those which serve no useful purpose or cause actual harm such as the Departments of Energy, Education, Homeland Security, and the Environmental Protection Agency. (1)

Other unconstitutional federal departments and agencies must be dismantled and their functions returned to the States or The People.

An orderly phase-out is required of those unconstitutional federal programs in which Citizens were forced to participate – such as social security and Medicare – so that the rug is not pulled out from American Citizens...

[mjp]

It was the unconstitutional spending which gave us this crushing $19 Trillion debt.

How do we go about downsizing the federal government to its constitutional limits?

We stop the unconstitutional and frivolous spending one can read about all over the internet.

One must deprive the government of the power to inflate the money supply with a return to the gold standard and institute a 100% metallic reserve banking system. This will provide maximum monetary stability and free the money and banking system of government interference.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The way to balance the budget is to spend last year’s receipts this year. Except in the event of a declared war. In which case term limits apply to the House and the Senate.

[i_robot73]

I’m afraid the tally is off by ~ $100T+

One of the simplest ways to correct: Kill property/incomes taxes, return to a service oriented economy and send a bill to EACH and EVERY Citizen for their ‘fair share’.

You have kids - pay for schooling/buses/books/etc.
You want fire/police/EMT - you pay the monthly ‘insurance’ charge.
You think welfare/etc. are needed? - donate as you see fit.

Once people see the COST of govt, you’ll be d@mn skippy they’ll start to clamor for the REDUCTION of govt.

It’s why something like the ‘Fair Tax’ will never be implemented: people are given the POWER to choose, and the info. to see how much/where for taxes.

Lotto/smoking/games/TV/phone more important than XYZ, nobody in govt is going to force neighbors to be the unwilling economic slave.