"Congress Considering Repeal of Death Tax"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
There is no clause in Congress’s constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to justify the corrupt House establishing a death tax. In fact, the Supreme Court has clarified that Congress is prohibited from laying taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue which Congress cannot justify under its Section 8-limited powers.
“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.
So since the corrupt, popularly elected Senate failed to kill the bill that established the death tax, this issue is another example why state lawmakers shouldn’t have ratified the ill-conceived 17th Amendment, foolishly giving up the voices of state lawmakers in Congress by doing so.
The 17th Amendment needs to disappear.
Few legislators give up power foolishly. They traded it for something they perceived to be better. That we let them is the crime.
You’ll note that the 17th was repealed after a wave of massive immigration from countries with illiberal cultures. They settled in cities and fell for Democrat talking points.
It’s been a mess for over a century.