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1 posted on 10/21/2016 11:25:17 AM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

Great Post!

2 posted on 10/21/2016 11:26:59 AM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Lorianne

First let’s kill all the hedge fund managers.


3 posted on 10/21/2016 11:28:14 AM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Lorianne

Oh hell no!


4 posted on 10/21/2016 11:28:55 AM PDT by Himyar (Sessions: the only real man in D.C.)
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To: Lorianne

The Federal Reserve and our fiat money are enabling the highest levels of corruption and progressive/crony control.

they control the supply of money - the most important commodity of all. Wall Street is too big to fail as they are an arm of state control and the US Government.

What do you expect?


5 posted on 10/21/2016 11:30:45 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Lorianne

Isn’t this exactly what Conservatives were pushing when they wanted to “privatize” Social Security?


6 posted on 10/21/2016 11:31:01 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Lorianne

Sirota is a big leftie.

She is going to splinter her own party over this.


7 posted on 10/21/2016 11:32:10 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Lorianne

He knows the Clintons are very good at Funneling Money


11 posted on 10/21/2016 11:44:25 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Lorianne; All
Thank you for referencing that article Lorianne. As usual, please note that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

Regarding a so-called federal retirement tax, patriots are reminded 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, basically any issue, such as retirement, that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional, Article I, 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.

The reason that there are unconstitutional federal social spending programs like Social Security and Medicare is the following imo. Taking Social Security for example, FDR’s state-sovereignty ignoring justices wrongly accepted Congress’s claim that the Constitution’s General Welfare Clause (1.8.1) gave Congress the specific power to establish social spending programs like Social Security as evidenced by the Court’s decision in Helvering v. Davis.

But the major constitutional problem with regarding the General Welfare Clause as a specific delegation of power is the following. Noting that James Madison is generally regarded as the father of the Constitution, FDR’s activist justices wrongly ignored President James Madison’s official clarification that the General Welfare Clause was not intended as an express delegation of power, but meant to be understood only as an introductory clause for the clauses that followed it in Section 8 which are delegations of specific power.

”To refer the power in question to the clause "to provide for common defense and general welfare" would be contrary to the established and consistent rules of interpretation, as rendering the special and careful enumeration of powers which follow the clause nugatory and improper. Such a view of the Constitution would have the effect of giving to Congress a general power of legislation instead of the defined and limited one hitherto understood to belong to them, the terms "common defense and general welfare" embracing every object and act within the purview of a legislative trust.” —James Madison, Veto of federal public works bill, 1817

Remember in November !

Patriots need to support Trump / Pence by also electing a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to support Trump’s vision for making America great again for everybody, but will also put a stop to unconstitutonal federal taxes and likewise unconstitutional inteference in state affairs as evidenced by FDR’s unconstitutional “New Deal” spending programs.

Note that such a Congress will also probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.

15 posted on 10/21/2016 12:25:41 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Lorianne

Funneling billions of middle class money to Wall Street? We already have that...its called IRAs and 401Ks.


18 posted on 10/21/2016 12:49:42 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Lorianne

“It seems like a very bizarre time to initiate such a proposal considering many public pension funds are actively ditching alternative managers after realizing they’ve been paying extraordinarily high fees for pitiful performance.”

This seems to explain perfectly the timing and urgency of the proposal from Wall Street’s perspective.


20 posted on 10/21/2016 2:22:11 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Lorianne

Redistribution the crony communist way.


22 posted on 10/21/2016 5:13:29 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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