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A Rubber Stamp Senate no More

Posted on 08/03/2013 4:16:25 PM PDT by Jacquerie

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To: Bratch
As long as the federal government controls 25% of the GDP, special interest groups will pore massive amounts of money into Senate campaigns. No matter how they’re elected (with a few exceptions), Senators are bought and paid for by the monied elite.

There's really two Amendments that are needed to address this issue, I believe — here's my stab at them:

Tax Reform Amendment Fiscal Responsibility Amendment
Section I
No tax, federal or state, shall ever be withheld from the wages of a worker of any citizen of either.

Section II
No property shall be seized for failure to pay taxes until after conviction in a jury trial; the right of the jury to nullify (and thereby forgive) this debt shall never be questioned or denied.

Section III
The second amendment is hereby recognized as restricting the power of taxation, both federal and state, therefore no tax (or fine) shall be laid upon munitions or the sale thereof.

Section IV
The seventh amendment is also hereby recognized, and nothing in this amendment shall restrict the right of a citizen to seek civil redress.

Section V
No income tax levied by the federal government, the several States, or any subdivision of either shall ever exceed 10%.

Section VI
No income tax levied by the federal government, the several States, or any subdivision of either shall ever apply varying rates to those in its jurisdiction.

Section VII
No retroactive or ex post facto tax (or fee) shall ever be valid.

Section VIII
The congress may not delegate the creation of any tax or fine in any way.

Section IX
No federal employee, representative, senator, judge, justice or agent shall ever be exempt from any tax, fine, or fee by virtue of their position.

Section X
Any federal employee, representative, senator, judge, justice or agent applying, attempting to apply, or otherwise causing the application of an ex post facto or retroactive law shall, upon conviction, be evicted from office and all retirement benefits forfeit.
Section I
The power of Congress to regulate the value of the dollar is hereby repealed.

Section II
The value of the Dollar shall be one fifteen-hundredth avoirdupois ounce of gold of which impurities do not exceed one part per thousand.

Section III
To guard against Congress using its authority over weights and measures to bypass Section I, the ounce in Section II is approximately 28.3495 grams (SI).

Section IV
The Secretary of the Treasury shall annually report the gold physically in its possession; this report shall be publicly available.

Section V
The power of the Congress to assume debt is hereby restricted: the congress shall assume no debt that shall cause the total obligations of the United States to exceed one hundred ten percent of the amount last reported by the Secretary of the Treasury.

Section VI
Any government agent, officer, judge, justice, employee, representative, or congressman causing gold to be confiscated from a private citizen shall be tried for theft and upon convection shall:
a. be removed from office (and fired, if an employee),
b. forfeit all pension and retirement benefits,
c. pay all legal costs, and
d. restore to the bereaved twice the amount in controversy

Section VII
The federal government shall assume no obligation lacking funding, neither shall it lay such obligation on any of the several States, any subdivision thereof, or any place under the jurisdiction of the United States. All unfunded liabilities heretofore assumed by the United States are void.

Section VIII
The federal government shall make all payments to its employees or the several states in physical gold. Misappropriation, malfeasance and/or misfeasance of funds shall be considered confiscation.

21 posted on 08/03/2013 6:27:49 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Jacquerie

This is most certainly true. The members of the federated republic are the several (50) states. But they do not have representation in the legislative body, as member states, by senators of their choosing.


22 posted on 08/03/2013 6:36:26 PM PDT by Elsiejay
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To: OneWingedShark


The long-awaited new book on how to fix our broken government by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Liberty and Tyranny and Ameritopia.
23 posted on 08/03/2013 6:46:36 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Jacquerie

The 19th Amendment also needs to go. Women are a majority of voters and are feminizing thereby the nation. Woman as a group vote to be taken care of. I vote for the conservative candidate in elections and primaries and more and more that candidate is a woman. That is good in the short term but the implications for the longer term are for more feminization of the nation. A feminine nation cannot compete in the world with a masculine power such as is China and such is Islam and even a resurgent Russia.


24 posted on 08/03/2013 6:55:59 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/econohttp://www.fee.org/library/det)
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To: Bratch
pore = pour
25 posted on 08/03/2013 7:25:34 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: arthurus
No argument. My wife came up with that almost twenty years after listening to girlfriend chat about voting for Clinton.
26 posted on 08/04/2013 1:50:19 AM PDT by Jacquerie (To restore the 10th Amendment, repeal the 17th.)
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To: Cheerio

I CAN’T WAIT!!!


27 posted on 08/04/2013 1:50:48 AM PDT by Jacquerie (To restore the 10th Amendment, repeal the 17th.)
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To: Jacquerie

make that twenty years ago.


28 posted on 08/04/2013 1:51:35 AM PDT by Jacquerie (To restore the 10th Amendment, repeal the 17th.)
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To: Jacquerie

Repeal of the 17th Amendment, Term Limits, and a Balanced Budget Amendment


29 posted on 08/04/2013 9:39:15 AM PDT by SC_Pete
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To: SC_Pete

Works for me!


30 posted on 08/04/2013 10:46:24 AM PDT by Jacquerie (To restore the 10th Amendment, repeal the 17th.)
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That would be great if he did, I just haven’t seen anything like that listed...


Agree. I thought JimRob had started a FreeperEditorial forum for idea oriented vanities.


31 posted on 08/04/2013 8:55:45 PM PDT by boxlunch (Psalm 94)
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