Hispanic Democrats release priorities for education bill

The Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) announced Tuesday it will push for aggressive expansion of access to higher education in the upcoming reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (HEA).

The CHC put out a list of priorities for higher education, including increasing college accessibility and affordability, support for teachers, oversight of the higher education system, and renewed support for Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) as well as diversity in education.

Congress is expected to debate reauthorization of the HEA when it comes back from recess mid-October. The landmark law sets guidelines for how federal funding is distributed in higher education.

The CHC's guidelines include access to post-secondary education, including federal and state aid for undocumented migrants and beneficiaries of programs like Temporary Protected Status (TPS) who have graduated from a U.S. high school.

Thank you for referencing that article yesthatjallen. Please note that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

"Hispanic Democrats release priorities for education bill"

FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

Although Hispanic Democrats' hearts are arguably in the right place, they got themselves elected to the wrong government to do their government-funded socioeconomic educational experiments.

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More specifically, note that President Thomas Jefferson, in a State of the Union address, had indicated that the states would first need to appropriately amend the Constitution before Congress could dictate policy, regulate, tax and spend, and otherwise stick its big nose (my wording) into INTRAstate schooling, something that the states have never done.

"On a few articles of more general and necessary use, the suppression in due season will doubtless be right, but the great mass of the articles on which impost is paid is foreign luxuries, purchased by those only who are rich enough to afford themselves the use of them. Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers [emphases added].”—Thomas Jefferson : Sixth Annual Message to Congress
“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.
”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.

Justice Joseph Story had reflected on Jefferson’s words by clarifying that the states have never expressively constitutionally given the feds the specific power to tax and spend in the name of intrastate schooling.

"The power to regulate manufactures, not having been confided to congress, they have no more right to act upon it, than they have to interfere with the systems of education, the poor laws, or the road laws, of the states [emphases added]. Congress is empowered to lay taxes for revenue, it is true; but there is no power to encourage, protect, or meddle with manufactures." —Joseph Story, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1, Commentaries on the Constitution 2

Justice Brandeis had likewise reflected on the unique, 10th Amendment (10A)-protected powers of the states to do socioeconomic spending experiments on behalf of a state’s citizens.

"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose [emphasis added], serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” —Justice Brandeis, Laboratories of democracy.

(Note that constitutional limits on states as laboratories of democracy is that states cannot establish privileged / protected classes or abridge constitutionally enumerated rights, and must maintain a constitutionally guaranteed republican form of government.)

So why are the feds now dictating so much domestic policy with no express constitutional authority to do so?

After all, one of the very few express constitutional powers that the states have given the feds to decide domestic policy is to run the US Mail Service (1.8.7).

In other words, most domestic spending policy based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated state revenues, state revenues stolen by means of unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that corrupt 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.

Using inappropriate words like "concept" and "implicit" here is what was left of 10A-protected state sovereignty after FDR’s state sovereignty-ignoring majority justices got finished with it in Wickard v. Filburn.

"10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
"In discussion and decision, the point of reference, instead of being what was "necessary and proper" to the exercise by Congress of its granted power, was often some concept [???] of sovereignty thought to be implicit [??? emphases added] in the status of statehood." —Wickard v. Filburn, 1942.

Although federal Democrats and RINOs are probably using promises of constitutionally indefensible federal spending to buy votes to stay in power, they need to get out of the federal government and into state governments if they are really sincere about serving the people.

The remedy for misguided federal lawmakers who have evidently never really studied the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers…

Patriots need to elect a new patriot Congress in the 2020 elections that will not only promise to fully support PDJT’s vision for MAGA, now KAG, but also consider this.

New lawmakers also need to promise to support PDJT in surrendering state powers that the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification feds have been stealing from the states for the last 100+ years back to the states.

And to make such changes permanent, patriots need to further support PDJT in working with Congress to lead the states to repeal the 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments.

Once unconstitutional federal taxes are stopped and the unconstitutional middleman, the unconstitutionally big federal government, is fired from "helping" the states to "manage" their respective revenues, the states will ultimately find a "tsunami" of new revenues that they can use for the following.

As examples, each state will be able improve its schools, increase funding for police and fire departments, fix roads and a whole lot of other improvement projects that were stalled as a consequence of unconstitutional federal taxing and infamously associated wasteful, fraudulent federal spending.

Remember in November 2020!

MAGA! Now KAG! (Keep America Great!)

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