the first step toward state sovereignty is to repeal the 17th amendment, and put the constitution back in order
It’s a nice thought but as long as we pay Federal Taxes, the Feds have us over a bale. “Set you speed at XX or you won’t get highway funds” is a good example.
I can see Zero calling in the Service Chiefs and asking them if in the event of civil unrest they would order their troops to fire on unarmed American civilians. If they say no, a search will begin for their replacements.
The first step in reasserting state sovereignty is to refuse any federal funding. The Golden Rule in politics is “He who has the gold, rules.” The federal government should keep its hands off state revenues and its nose out of state affairs not enumerated in the US Constitution, as per the Tenth Amendment. Our Founders were not fools. They feared a strong central government, and they were right.
The fix will not come from DC, but from the state taking control of their citizens destinies again, by being beholden to the people and not DC.
This movement is the salvation of the country in my opinion.
We must support it state by state
Does anyone know if there is a states rights ping list? If so I would like to be added.
~ 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. ~
—Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution—
“Any objective observer can see that the Tenth Amendment is the most widely violated provision of the bill of rights. If it had been enforced, America would be an astonishingly different country. Today’s atmosphere of big government, ever-expanding entitlement programs, and bloated spending threaten to undermine the very basis of American liberty and self-reliance.
To bring about positive social change and to strengthen our most effective and efficient social institutions, we must rein in government, reject calls for expanded entitlement programs, and demand that government intervenes in only very limited ways and only when absolutely necessary.
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.”
~ Milton Friedman ~
This is fantastic!
But why did the states have to wait until the Dims control both houses of Congress & the Presidency before doing this?
Oh, I see....the Republicans respected state sovereignty, the 9th & 10th Amendments, limited federal power over the states, & were opposed to the concentration of power into a centralized government! Riiiiiiiiiiiight........
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