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To: Olog-hai; All
Thank you for referencing that article Olog-hai. As usual, please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

Patriots, please bear in mind that lawless Obama is actually not the main problem with unconstitutional federal budget imo. This is because the Founding States had uniquely given the House the ”power of the purse” as evidenced by Clause 1 of Section 7 of Article I.

And the corrupt, RINO-controlled House has been blatantly ignoring the clarification of a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices that Congress is prohibited from appropriating taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue 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.

Based on the Courts statement above, here is a rough approximation of how much taxpayers should be paying Congress annually to perform its Section 8-limited power duties.

Given that the plurality of clauses in Section 8 deal with defense, and given that the Department of Defense budget for 2015 was $500+ billion, I will generously round up the $500+ billion figure to $1 trillion (but probably much less) as the annual price tag of the federal government to the taxpayers.

In other words, the corrupt media, including Obama guard dog Fx Noise, should not be reporting multi-trillion dollar annual federal budgets without mentioning the Supreme Courts clarification of Congresss limited power to appropriate taxes in budget discussions.

Remember in November !

When patriots elect Trump, Cruz, or whatever conservative they elect, they need to also elect a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its Section 8-limited powers to support the new president, but also protect the states from unconstitutional federal government overreach.

Also, consider that such a Congress would probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.

9 posted on 02/09/2016 12:40:01 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: Amendment10

Patriots, please bear in mind that lawless Obama is actually not the main problem with unconstitutional federal budget imo. This is because the Founding States had uniquely given the House the ”power of the purse” as evidenced by Clause 1 of Section 7 of Article I. ...
That may not have been too big of a problem if the Sixteenth Amendment had never come to be. Not to mention, it is unconstitutional to delegate collecting such taxation to the executive branch, via the Department of the Treasury and its IRS division (one of the first instances of Congress destroying separation of powers was the creation of the Treasury Department in 1789, FWICS).
11 posted on 02/09/2016 12:48:26 PM PST by Olog-hai
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