So David, given these views, if it's a choice between Trump and Sanders, who will you support?
Broken Clock...
If you work foe the Times and have outed yourself as a non-socialist, have your resume updated.
As expected, there is a big BUT.
“But capitalism, like all human systems, is always unbalanced one way or another. Over the last generation, capitalism has produced the greatest reduction in global income inequality in history. The downside is that low-skill workers in the U.S. are now competing with workers in Vietnam, India and Malaysia. The reduction of inequality among nations has led to the increase of inequality within rich nations, like the United States.
Also, education levels have not kept pace with technology. More people grow up with inadequate schools, disrupted families and fragmented neighborhoods. They find it harder to acquire the skills to become good capitalists. The market is effectively closed off to them.
These problems are not signs that capitalism is broken. They are signs that we need more and better capitalism. We need a massive infusion of money and reform into our education systems, from infancy through life. Human capital-building is like nutrition: It’s something you have to attend to every day. We need welfare programs that not only subsidize poor people’s consumption but also subsidize their capacity to produce.
We need worker co-ops, which build skills and represent labor at the negotiating table. We need wage subsidies and mobility subsidies, so people can afford to move to opportunity. We need tax subsidies for health care, to make it easier for people to switch jobs. We need a higher earned-income tax credit, to give the working poor financial security so they don’t get swept away amid the creative destruction. We need a carbon tax, to give everyone an incentive to reduce carbon emissions without pretending we know the best way to do it.”
First, other than mainly the US Mail Service (1.8.7), consider that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific powers to care for the people. So social spending programs cannot be established by the federal government without the Constitution's Article V state supermajority first amending the Constitution to give the feds specific new powers to establish such a program.
”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.
In fact, the congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had clarified that the Founding States had left the care of the people to the states, not the feds.
”[…] the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Federal Constitution, is in the States, and not in the Federal Government [emphases added].” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe, 1866. (See about middle of 3rd column.)
Sadly, as a consequence of parents not making sure that their children are being taught the federal government's constitutionally limited powers as the Founding States had intended for those powers to be understood, nearly all federal domestic social spending programs are now scandalously based on stolen state powers and state revenues imo, state revenues stolen by means of unconstitutional federal taxes.
"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 socialists must do the following if they want to experiment with their socioeconomic experiments while protecting and defending the Constitution.
Socialists must first find, and then get elected to a state government, again, not the federal government, whose legal citizen majority voters are willing to risk their tax dollars for such experiments, and then exercise 10th Amendment (10A)-protected state powers try to make their ideas work.
Justice Brandeis had put it this way about the "laboratories of democracy," the unique powers of the sovereign states to serve the people, depending on what the legal majority citizen voters of a given state want.
"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 post-17th Amendment (17A) ratification federal career lawmakers now providing vote-winning (hint) social spending programs well beyond the mail service since the states have never given the feds the express constitutional power to tax and spend for such services?
Using inappropriate words like “concept” and “implicit,” the excerpt below from Wickard v. Filburn (Wickard) shows what was left of the defense of 10A-protected state sovereignty by the last of the state sovereignty-respecting majority justices in United States v. Butler, FDR’s state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices later ignoring the reasonable Butler interpretation of 10A when they treasonously decided Wickard in Congress’s favor imo.
"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."
”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.
"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.
Consider that the states now struggle to find the revenues to exercise their unique 10A duties to care for their respective citizens because the corrupt federal government keeps stealing state revenues in the form of unconstitutional taxes according to the Gibbons excerpt above, taxes that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
The remedy for unconstitutionally big federal government…
Patriots must 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 will also do the following.
New patriot lawmakers also need to promise to work with PDJT to put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, and also surrender state powers that the post-17A ratification feds have been stealing from the states back to the states.
Once unconstitutional federal taxes are stopped then each state will ultimately find new revenues to experiment with its own social spending programs, depending on what the legal majority citizen voters of a given state are trying to achieve.
And to make such changes permanent, patriots need to further support PDJT in working with the states to repeal the 16th and 17th Amendments to the Constitution.
Remember in November 2020!
MAGA! Now KAG! (Keep America Great!)
"The “Holy Grail” of organized crime is to control government power to tax." —me
"The 16th Amendment effectively repealed the involuntary servitude aspect of the 13th Amendment imo, evidenced by unconstitutional federal taxes." —me
"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.
"13th Amendment, Section 1:
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude [emphasis added], except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
"16th Amendment:
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
"The constitutionally undefined political parties are basically rival, corrupt voter unions, “union dues” paid by means of unconstitutional federal taxes. Belonging to a political party means that you are a subject, not a member.” —me
"Patriots need to support PDJT in demanding that Congress moves "April 15" tax day to the day before election day." —me
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most appropriations laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." —me
Bradford and the Pilgrims figured this out within three years of being Americans.
They tried socialism for two years, it failed.
Bradford said, everyone gets their own land and they must work it, and they get to keep whatever they produce.
After that, that had an event, and it was THANKS GIVING TO GOD FOR THEIR BOUNTY.
Capitalism worked, socialism failed, look at early America (1620-1623), Venezuela {today}, Cuba {since 1959} and Russia { since they discovered how to make vodka out of anything}.
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