Posted on 11/17/2014 4:50:09 AM PST by BobL
It was noted by someone smarter than me that if the President can now systematically choose which laws he wants to enforce and how to enforce those laws (as in Executive Amnesty), perhaps the next Republican president can do the same. Here are some examples, and I'm sure you guys can come up with more:
1) A FLAT TAX. No, we don't change our tax laws, we simply tell the IRS not to prosecute anyone that has already paid at least 20% of his income in taxes. So if a person makes $1M, and would otherwise owe $340K, now all they have to do is pay $200k, and they will not face any type of enforcement action. WE NOW HAVE A FLAT TAX.
2) COMMON SENSE ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS. The Endangered Species Act, for starters has cost millions of jobs. Perhaps the next president orders the Executive Branch to simply stop enforcing it. If people want to build dams, factories, or drive polluting automobiles, we'll let the states handle it.
3) ENDING FEDERAL PROSECUTION OF MINORITIES. Minorities have had a tough time and the last thing they need is the Justice Department breathing down their backs after they commit felonies. Perhaps it's time to end that policy. Oh, never mind, Holder's already doing that.
4) NO MORE AIR BAGS IN CARS. Actually, they still might stay there, but federal enforcement would end - if the companies want to save $1,000 and stop rearranging the faces of their customers (at the same time), they could get rid of air bags.
5) FREEDOM TO CHOOSE LIGHT BULBS. All bulbs are again legal.
6) ENDING FEDERAL PROCUREMENT LAWS. The laws that require certain amounts of "minority, women-owned businesses, native-American, etc.) could be ended, and replaced with simply taking the best deal available.
I'm sure you guys have lots more ideas. Let's have some fun here, now that the president has re-arranged the Constitution.
A couple more:
1) CORPORATE TAX CUT: Our Corporate Tax is simply too high (around 40%), perhaps we also exempt companies from prosecution if they pay at least 20% in corporate taxes.
2) CAPITAL GAINS TAX ELIMINATION: Simply don’t enforce that law. I remember Bush-41 not asking for much (after he made a mess of Reagan’s revolution), but one thing he did want was a Capital Gains tax cut. The Dems were not about to give it to him. But now the next president won’t need to deal with Congress on the issue.
Fair tax.
Very poor idea. This is what liberals would (and are doing). Why be like them? Conservatives have answers, so lets play to our strengths rather than weaknesses of other parties clearly in the wrong.
Yeah I don’t know why this hasn’t been big.
What would President Cruz do with this? That alone should give them pause.
“Very poor idea.”
I know that. What I’m trying to do is help the IDIOT REPUBLICANS build a case against this stunt.
I suspect our vaulted leaders right now are caucusing on a way to defuse this Constitutional Crisis by trying to come up with a way to bring up the Senate Amnesty Bill and thus the president would not need the Executive Order.
My point is that THERE ARE OPTIONS, including fighting this crap, by showing just how extreme it is.
Not matching them in tactics is a way to lose. It's like fighting a war with ROE that prevent our soldiers from having loaded guns. It's like changing Senate filibuster rules back to 60 when we're in the majority.
Fight back damn it.
Not a good approach at all. The law must mean what the law says, otherwise there is no law at all, only unrestrained power. The Anglo-American conception of law is that it is to be a restriction on power. Your approach is to throw away the whole legal structure since Magna Carta and to fall in with Hobbesian anarchy.
You’re right too. They SKUNKED US on the filibuster. We were ready to trash it, but then McCain CAME TO THE RESCUE and saved them (the Democrats). Then when the Dems got power back, and the filibuster got in their way, they trashed it. And McCain didn’t say A DAMN THING.
I wish the DOJ were taken out of the control of the white house altogether. In Michigan we’ve got an elected AG and it works very well with him operating outside the control (and sometimes in conflict with) the governor.
/johnny
This needs to be done as there are certain not so civilized peoples that still have legalized slavery.
Are we to live with the savages with slaves as equals amongst us, or do we banish them?
The Ted Cruz speech about operating in conflict with the Bush administration DOJ is the one that got my attention on Ted Cruz.
The Bush White house wanted to commute the death sentence of a Mexican national but Ted Cruz said NO.
that one act would shut up all the bs ‘what are you going to do? deport 30 million of them?’ crowd
cut the funds off to any state that prosecutes too
one problem solved with only a pen - no phone needed
Instead of ignoring the Constitution, the president can do many things to reverse the decline such as appointing people to the various alphabet agencies to repeal the job-killing regulations that they impose on businesses.
Would reduce the labor costs by 15% - 50% on each federal construction project. With labor at an average of 40%, a million dollar project would save 60K at the low end.
Would also really put union leaders into a tizzy.
Fight back damn it.
You can't defend the Constitution by violating it. Obama's "tactics" on immigration/amnesty are plainly unconstitutional, and adopting these "tactics" for purportedly conservative purposes would be unconstitutional. That, alone, is reason enough for conservatives to run (not walk) away from this idea.
Of course not - but that's not what we're talking about.
IF it turns out to be constitutional/he does it, then it is by default constitutional. So if they do it without consequence, it is allowed.
If it's allowed, we should do it.
Now, if there ends up being a consequence commensurate w/ unconstitutionality, then I would not make the same assertion.
Time will tell.
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