Posted on 10/10/2014 12:59:47 PM PDT by ThethoughtsofGreg
Over the last several decades, Washington has passed laws and promulgated regulations that diminish the ability of states to govern as envisioned by our nation’s founders. Meanwhile, across this great nation, governors are balancing budgets, reforming and reducing taxes, reducing the state regulatory burden and implementing novel programs to serve their citizens. In many respects, governors are doing this despite roadblocks put up by the federal government and bureaucrats in Washington.
There is only so much that we can do at the state level. Federal regulations drive the costs of goods and services and those costs are then born by Hoosier families. Because regulations increase the costs of doing business, they necessarily increase the costs of goods and services while also decreasing wages and depress hiring. The effect is that regulations hit middle class and lower income families especially hard.
Recent efforts by Congress to curtail federal regulations are to be commended. The U.S. House of Representatives passed the REINS Act and the ALERRT Act in an attempt to slow the regulatory cascade; unfortunately those bills are generally accepted as being dead on arrival in the U.S. Senate. Meanwhile, Senator Coats recently introduced the Sound Regulation Act to require cost benefit reviews of regulations. While these are positive proposals, the dysfunction in Washington has made it clear that the solutions to what ails this country are going to come from the states.
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Hey Mike, get back to us when you are unwilling to grant Amnesty.
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
We would not have near the problems we have today.
Reagan's Law: In this current crisis, government is not the solution; government is the problem.
Actually, solutions mostly come from private individuals and organizations.
Governments at all levels mostly create more problems.
Actually, solutions mostly come from private individuals and organizations.
Governments at all levels mostly create more problems.
I’d lay 3-1 odds Pence will run for President in 2016.
"Federal regulations drive the costs of goods and services and those costs are then born by Hoosier families."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
What federal regulations is Mr. Pence talking about? Note that if the federal regulations that he is thinking about deal with intrastate commerce then please consider the following.
Regardless what socialist FDR's activist justices wanted everybody to think about the scope of Congress's Commerce Clause powers when it decided Wickard v. Filburn in 1942, these thug justices wrongly ignored that both Thomas Jefferson, and also the Supreme Court, had already officially clarified that Congress has no business sticking its big nose into intrastate commerce.
“For the power given to Congress by the Constitution does not extend to the internal regulation of the commerce of a State, (that is to say of the commerce between citizen and citizen,) which remain exclusively [emphases added] with its own legislature; but to its external commerce only, that is to say, its commerce with another State, or with foreign nations, or with the Indian tribes.” –Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson’s Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank : 1791.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description, as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state [emphasis added] and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass.” —Justice Barbour, New York v. Miln., 1837.
Also, from the article:
"States should be the laboratories of democracy, but the ability to innovate is hampered by the dictates of the federal government and strings attached to federal dollars [emphasis added]."
Again, never accept the premise of your opponent's argument.
More specifically, Justice John Marshall had officially clarified that Congress is prohibited from laying taxes in the name of state power issues, issues which Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited power.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Given Justice Marshall's statement, regarding much of the "strings attached" federal funding that the federal government is using to force the states to comply with likely constitutionally indefensible federal regulations, regulations that Congress cannot justify under its Section 8-limited powers, Congress never had the constitutional authority to lay taxes for such funds. Such funds should have never left the states in the first place and can be regarded as state revenues that corrupt Congress stole from the states.
Are we having fun yet?
What a mess! =^(
In the old days, when a candidate was really chosen at the party conventions, instead of merely being coronated, Pence is the kind of guy who would be chosen on, say, the 86th ballot as a compromise candidate.
Where’s Mike Pence’s federalism when Judges force gay marriage on the states, or when he’s into expanding medicare/Medicaid as part of Obamacare??
that is right!
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