You can listen to Sean Hannity rant for ten minutes about how we need to obey the Constitution. Then he will rant for ten minutes about how the federal government should set up “medical savings accounts.”
Where are “medical savings accounts” in the Constitution?
Here’s my Exhibit A for the “broken window” theory”: Alcee Hastings, currently a Congressman from FL but also a disgraced and impeachment-convicted former federal judge. When Congress will convict a federal judge of the impeachment charges against him and turn around to allow him to be seated in their body, then you know the system is well and truly broken by avarice and greed.
“Now, let’s shift gears to the national governing scene, to Washington DC. Here, the criminals don’t get their hands dirty in common street assaults against individuals. Crimes at this level impact and violate an entire nation. The Framers referred to these as high crimes. They are so extraordinary that no manmade statute could possibly describe them all. Despite the ambiguity, high crimes, which can only be committed by those in the top positions of civil trust, are real, and consist of violations of the Constitution. Once these people swear to God that they will uphold and defend the supreme law of the land, they are subject to the impeachment, trial and removal clauses of the Constitution. Uh, well, except they are not. Like the NYC street thugs of 1981, the DC high crime spree continues and grows.
For one illustrative example among probably hundreds, the issuance of regulations with the force of law by the administrative state is a high crime. When administrators from the EPA release their diktats, they usurp a power We The People loaned to congress and congress alone: lawmaking as per Article I § 1. Instead of issuing thousands of regulations per year, scientists at the EPA should submit policy proposals for congress to consider. That is all. When scotus ensconces this practice as Constitutional, scotus also participates in high crimes against the sovereign people. I assert that no high crime against the sovereign people should go unpunished.”
San Francisco and Oakland are examples of the opposite of NBW. They no longer arrest people for smash and grabs.