Posted on 04/21/2015 5:38:16 AM PDT by reaganaut1
POST FALLS, Idaho — It took five years for negotiators to work out the details of a multinational treaty on child support that would make it easier to track delinquent parents around the world. It took only a couple of minutes for a committee of the Idaho Legislature to endanger America’s participation.
In a 9-to-8 vote in the closing hours of the legislative session, the House Judiciary, Rules and Administration Committee killed a bill that state and federal officials had said was crucial to the finely crafted choreography of the child support treaty reached at The Hague. All 50 states must approve the mechanics of the treaty for American ratification to proceed, and 19 have signed off thus far.
A major factor seems to be Idaho’s ornery streak, the part of the state’s identity that does not like the federal government — or, worse still, foreign governments — telling it what to do.
In Boise, the state capital, members of the committee — which is dominated by Republicans, as is the Legislature as a whole — raised concerns about foreign tribunals, perhaps ones based on Shariah, the Islamic legal code, potentially making decisions under the treaty that Idaho might not like. At least 32 countries, along with the European Union, have ratified the agreement.
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Federal officials said that $16 million in funding for Idaho’s child welfare system would be cut within 60 days, effectively dismantling the state’s child support enforcement arm, which can take steps like garnishing a parent’s pay. Another $30 million in block grants could dry up too, including federal money for Head Start, the preschool program for low-income children.
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OH well to bad why do we need international child support regulations and way.
I guess the NYT doesn’t understand what a sovereign state is.
This is why centralization of tax revenues with the federal government is bad policy. Minimizing what the federal government gets reduces such concern.
It does. This is not a treaty with individual states. It is a treaty between the United States and other nations. But, in order for the United States to sign on to the this particular treaty, it had to get buy in from all 50 of the individual states.
Good for Idaho. Now the fed screwed up and showed what a brutal master it's become. Taking away other money as coercion to get Idaho to sign on. Like threating to not send highway money to states all these years for not agreeing to speed limits or DUI limits.
That is, “remittance,” not “remission.”
i need my coffee.
Was the treaty ever ratified by Congress? I haven’t seen any reports of it.
By the way it's being reported, I'd say Idaho has derailed it before it ever got to Congress. I think the buy-in from the states had to come before Congressional ratification.
I think I read that too. Still seems extra-Constitutional to me. But what do I know, I’m just an engineer.
A ‘CHILD SUPPORT TREATY’ ?????? Have other states gone along with this???
I think if this was litigated, SCOTUS would slap this down. The Feds can make the child support enforcement money contingent upon the state passing the legislation, but they can't make other federal funds that are unrelated to child support contingent upon the state passing it. That is coercion, and SCOTUS already slapped down the Obama administration for that in the Medicaid expansion case.
If this is allowed to stand and establish precedent, look for gun control to be next on the menu.
Killing Head Start would be great in any case. The entire child support Enterprise was designed not for scofflaws, but to allow the Fed government to intrude in everyone’s life. Good for Idaho!
“Child support” flows from failed marriages destroyed by Liberalism and Feminism.
The CS deck being totally stacked against young men in courtrooms all over this land and against all races defines WHY marriage is all but dead statistically and in the minds of “thinking” young men.
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