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To: Errant
"One option would be for the states to call such a convention for the sole purpose of removing the 16th amendment which provides for the collection of individual income taxes. This amendment allows for the full measure of the federal government to be brought against individual income earners and removed the states as intermediaries.

Remove this amendment and the federal beast risks starvation by biting the hand of the states who feed it..."


That sounds feasible. Maybe that's the correct approach - my original thought was to "starve" the blue states but perhaps starving D.C. would be better.
50 posted on 11/07/2012 11:09:23 PM PST by FortWorthPatriot (Obama is no Hitler; Hitler got the Olympics)
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To: FortWorthPatriot
starving D.C. would be better

Exactly, and by doing so, force it back into its constitutional cage. The federal government gets its power over the states from direct funding from business, individuals, bills and recently printing money out of thin air.

Finding state legislatures with the cajones to call such a convention is another matter. Amendments have been abolished before though (i.e. prohibition).

51 posted on 11/07/2012 11:23:13 PM PST by Errant
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