Patriots who might have missed the following note about the annual federal budget as the Founding States had probably meant for it to be understood, will probably find it disturbing.
Regarding $4 and $5 billion dollar annual federal budgets, note that a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified that Congress is prohibited from appropriating taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers. This is evidenced by the excerpt below.
”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.
In fact, based on the Court’s statement above, here is a rough approximation of how much taxpayers should be paying Congress annually to perform its Section 8-limited power duties.
Given that the plurality of clauses in Section 8 deal with defense, and given that the Department of Defense budget for 2015 was $500+ billion, I will generously round up the $500+ billion figure to $1 trillion (but probably much less) as the annual price tag of the federal government to the taxpayers.
In other words, the corrupt media, including Obama guard dog Fx Noise, should not be reporting multi-trillion dollar annual federal budgets without mentioning the Supreme Court’s clarification of Congresss limited power to appropriate taxes in budget discussions.
Remember in November !
Patriots need to support Trump by also electing a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its Section 8-limited powers to support Trump’s vision for making America great again for everybody, but will also put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes and federal interference in state affairs.
Also consider that such a Congress would probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
What you are saying and what patriots should note is that 80%+ of those activities and expenditures by the $4 trillion central government is unconstitutional, not authorized by the enumerated powers in Section 8 and elsewhere, even if those expenditures were included in a budget.
The main effort needs to be to dismantle the 80%+ unconstitutional portion of the central government - a seemingly impossible job, but my God is a God of the impossible. He is able and I hope He will make it happen.
In the meantime, the states need to come out of hiding, assert their constitutional sovereignty, and nullify and reject unconstitutional federal acts.