Posted on 12/12/2023 8:42:51 PM PST by SeekAndFind
9/11, fear, and rino enabling.
printed, fiat money and the massive debt it supports
For as wise as the founders were, they did not anticipate Congress spending money like it was going out of style. They should have added to the Constitution the following:
1. The Federal government cannot tax or spend more than 10% of the cumulative adjusted gross income of the citizens.
2. The only deduction for tax purposes is for charitable donations.
3. The Federal government cannot borrow money except in the case of declared war.
RE: 9/11, fear, and rino enabling.
Each major crisis ( terrorism, pandemic, economic ) made it necessary for government to print money to address the problems.
So, 9/11 gave us an increased military and surveillance budgets.
The Housing and Mortgage crisis of 2008 to 2009 resulted in TARP and Obama increasing spending ( stimulus ) to address the issue.
Then of course, the Covid pandemic resulted in shutdowns resulting in governments printing even more money to stem the crisis.
In each case, after the crisis subsided, Congress NEVER reverted to the pre-crisis budget and made the crisis budget its BASELINE for the subsequent year’s budget.
Expect more “crises” to be fabricated by politicians in order to justify more spending and of course, BIGGER government.
Heck, we haven’t had an actual budget since like 2008 or something like that.
It started WAY before that.
The size of the federal government, not including the military, even increased under Reagan.
Women voting for “Daddy” Government.
Along with World War Two.
The Founders could not have been clearer
Article I, Section 10, Clause 1: No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts;
This refers to states, but the US Federal Govt had "hard money" until 1913. We ignored the founders, and created a central bank which prints money backed by NOTHING. It means it can buy unlimited government debt and manipulate interest rates, giving unlimited power to Government and cronies in Washington DC
FDR started this mess. I often wonder if Louisiana’s Senator Huey P. Long weren’t assassinated what kind of a president he’d been if he had run against FDR and won. That was his plan, to run against him.
The 16th amendment.
Cuz some of us are working our butts off and they’re taking a hefty piece of it.
Yes, sadly.
We’ve gone a long way from not being able to feed or clothe our continental Army.
The undeniable existence of the Deep State, which rigged the 2020 election, proves the Anti-Federalists were right. The federal government has become a monster which is too big and too powerful. Constitutional reforms are needed so that the states may check the expansion of federal powers, and that would require a new constitutional organ derived from the states, outside the current three branches of the federal constitution. I must also note that “federalism” does not equate with “conservatism” as many here believe. The federal government today is far from conservative. It is better described as elitist. We need more Anti-Federalist judges, and fewer Federalist Society judges on the federal bench.
They just spend and spend. Never cut spending. Congress created new base spending which is approx 1/3rd more that created the inflation and bad economy we have. Their bribe money shelters them from reality.
In 2019, Congress spent $4.4 trillion, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said.
In 2023, the federal government is expected to spend $6.3 trillion.
And the ability to tax personal income.
Yes. ‘Women’ (at least a large part of them) will vote for perceived safety and security, even at the expense of others’ rights.
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