"If you can’t keep the government funded without gargantuan deficits and 6,000+ earmarks, you’re doing it wrong."
First, the bottom line ...
Consider that political party and media fuss about "obsolete" electoral college is because it is the only thing stopping the corrupt political parties from establishing a permanent puppet presidency that will unquestioningly sign unconstitutional taxing and spending bills into law.
Regarding gargantuan federal deficits, the key question that oppressed taxpayers need to ask about unconstitutional, unaccountable federal taxing and spending by the unconstitutionally big federal government that they have created by unthinking abuse (I've been there) of their 17th Amendment (popular voting for federal senators) powers is this.
"Article I, Section 9, Clause 7: No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time [emphasis added]."
How many gargantuan spending bills does it take to run the US Mail Service, one of the very few significant powers that the states have actually expressly constitutionally given to the peacetime federal government to dictate federal domestic policy? (Most federal spending isnow based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated state revenues stolen by the feds by means of unconstitutional taxes.)
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"
"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.
"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.
“ If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
From the congressional record:
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattetive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." (non-FR; 6 sec.)
Democrats [and RINOs] Are Terrified Of An Educated And Informed Public (3.12.23)
Trump-supporting Democratic and Republican patriots need to IMMEDIATELY primary all incumbent state and federal incumbent lawmakers and executives up for reelection this year, except for MTG, Gaetz & Company (and others?).
Majority in new poll say Biden, most members of Congress don’t deserve new term: Gallup (2.2.24)
Voters Doubt Biden’s Leadership and Favor Trump, Times/Siena Poll Finds (3.2.24)
70% of New York voters say Biden not fit to serve another term: poll (2.20.24)
Patriots then need to replace worthless, Trump-hating incumbent lawmakers with Trump-supporting patriot lawmakers in November so that hopeful Trump 47 will not be a lame duck president from the first day of his second term in office.
Again, consider that corrupt political party and media fuss about "obsolete" electoral college is because the electoral college is the only thing stopping the corrupt political parties that have pirated control of state and federal governments from establishing a permanent puppet presidency that will unquestioningly sign unconstitutional taxing and spending bills into law.
“ARTICLE IV....SECTION 4.
The Congress shall have the power to dispose of...the territory or other property of the United States”
Congress have Waste Management haul away what were your tax dollars to the dump, or to Democrats at the state and local level so they can buy votes.
“The Madisonian view held that the grant of power to tax and spend for the general national welfare must be confined to the enumerated legislative fields committed to the Congress. The Hamiltonian view cast the power as separate and distinct from those later enumerated and not restricted by them. Recognizing that support existed among the Founders for both perspectives, the Court adopted the Hamiltonian view, stating that the power of Congress to authorize expenditure of public moneys for public purposes is not limited by the direct grants of legislative power found in the Constitution.”
“in 1937, the Court reaffirmed Butler’s embrace of the Hamiltonian perspective and offered further guidance on Congress’s authority to identify expenditures that serve the general welfare. In resolving a challenge to the Social Security Act’s system of old-age benefits, the Court in Helvering v. Davis characterized Spending Clause analysis as requiring a fact-intensive distinction between one welfare and another, that is, between particular and general. Congress had discretion to decide that expenditures aided the general welfare, unless that choice was clearly wrong, a display of arbitrary power, or not an exercise of judgment. What qualified as the general welfare could change with the times. Congress could thus conclude that legislation to support the destitute elderly, a national problem, would advance the general welfare.”
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S8-C1-2-3/ALDE_00013358/
linked to from:
https://constitution.congress.gov/searchessayfacet/General_Welfare/