I commented on the website as follows:
Gawd I hope so! Gone are the days when we can just pick up a phone and order something, such as IT equipment. It has now morphed into what I call an "impossibly complex" purchase process that requires no less than approval at at least 10 different levels! It's ridiculous!
The red tape is overwhelming!
Richard Nixon’s biggest failure wasn’t Watergate, but the myriad of alphabet agencies formed on his watch that are used to beat private industry into bloody submission to the state.
Just cut! Get rid of stuff! If it’s really important the need will be so great they can reinstate it later. Only one out of 100 is really needed!
I would have named him the “Regulatory Reducer Czar”.
No more requiring HR departments to supply the statistice on the racial and sexual make up of corporations.
“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.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Note that Trump, Icahn, their rich friends, and all taxpayers for that matter, have probably paid much more federal taxes then the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Congress can justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
Also consider that even if rich people and corporations have provided “incentives” (pronounced as bribes) to lawmakers to include loopholes for the rich in appropriations bills, that corrupt lawmakers still probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit such incentives since they didn’t have the express constitutional authority to make many such bills in the first place.
Patriots need to support Trump and Icahn in putting a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes. Once such taxes are stopped then the states will probably find a tsunami of new revenues that they won’t know what to do with.
Patriots need to support Trump and Icahn in draining the unconstitutionally big federal government swamp.