Very odd that two of the most leftist states in the nation(New Hampshire being the other) are rattling sabers -- well, sortof. What is their motivation?
Some additional links, thanks going to SunkenCiv:
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The income tax amendment and the interstate commerce clause makes it moot.
The interstate commerce clause allows the federal government to control a great deal. And with the income tax amendment, the federal government can take money from the states and withhold it, unless the state does what is required by the federal government. The state won’t get that money back unless the state cooperates.
Very strange indeed. This administration would have to be their ultimate wet dream. So what IS driving this?
How far can Big BroMoFo push us—you see the direction people are turning by this and other posts all over the net!
e.g.
http://middleburyinstitute.org/
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“In order to retain the divinely inspired Constitution,
the “Miracle at Philadelphia”, every generation must be
educated in the divine science of goverment and be vigilant
in it’s preservation.”
The failure to this has gotten us to the point where we
stand today.
This is off topic, but I think that some of you might find it interesting. A friend of mine just called to tell me that her Regents, union health insurance, just turned her down for knee surgery, saying that it was caused by obesity and could not be covered. She asked if she had a heart attack would that be covered, and the answer was no, not if it was written up as attributed to obesity.
There is a reason that, all of a sudden, the states are asserting their rights. And the reason is that they fear that Congress knows EXACTLY what it is doing and WANTS to bankrupt the country.
Think of the ramifications of the country going bankrupt: No Social Secrity outlays, no Medicare outlays, no this or that AND they get to start over. Notice I said outlays; because they will STILL collect the tax.
Nobody has asked - or answered - the question: “What next?” when this fails.
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Southern states are not “allowed” to act this way......
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