If this is WAR, I’m moving to Oklahoma.
This is precisely the sort of thing that should make the State Sovereignty people feel increased energy. Their enemy is coming for them and their only defense is to re-double their efforts.
If this is the price we have to pay for Obama doubling the troop count in Afghanistan and maybe getting us into war with more countries, such as Pakistan or Columbia, then this is a small price to pay. War uber alles.
Tell the one to “bring it on”. There is a reason you won’t see these town hall meetings in OK. The union thugs and ACORN agents would be beaten to a pulp inside of a minute.
P.S. They can add me to the “enemies” list.
Hey Holder...DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS..and remember...TEXAS HAS OKLAHOMA’S BACK BRO!
Obama and his communist thugs are completely out of control.
holder is really kicking a hornet’s nest.
Do not send the money to the feds, fund your own highways, your own schools, your own power plants.
Why send your money to washington to get only 83 percent of it back?
ping
How about if Oklahoma said all business within the state will send all Federal Income Taxes collected to the state treasurer. The state treasurer will then make disbursements to the Feds as appropriate. This would give the people the cover they need. Oklahoma could withhold any taxes from the Feds and jam this threat right down their Bolshevik throats.
BTW, what the heck is wrong or illegal about a state declaring that English is its official language?
PING
“Both of these letters, particularly this letter to the Attorney General of Oklahoma, are very officious,”
Officious! The precisely correct word for the attitude taken by this administration toward its role in serving the people: instead of stewards of the public trust, they stepped in as “master” to the people’s “servant”. Not a big Sooner fan myself, being a Longhorn, but this is (gulp) bigger than interstate rivalry!
Colonel, USAFR
Maybe Oklahoma should beat them to the punch and withhold its funds given to the federal government, first!
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But that is not the point in controversy. It is, whether congress has a right to regulate that, which is not committed to it, under a power, which is committed to it, simply because there is, or may be an intimate connexion between the powers. If this were admitted, the enumeration of the powers of congress would be wholly unnecessary and nugatory. Agriculture, colonies, capital, machinery, the wages of labour, the profits of stock, the rents of land, the punctual performance of contracts, and the diffusion of knowledge would all be within the scope of the power; for all of them bear an intimate relation to commerce. The result would be, that the powers of congress would embrace the widest extent of legislative functions, to the utter demolition of all constitutional boundaries between the state and national governments. When duties are laid, not for purposes of revenue, but of retaliation and restriction, to countervail foreign restrictions, they are strictly within the scope of the power, as a regulation of commerce. But when laid to encourage manufactures, they have nothing to do with it. The power to regulate manufactures is no more confided to congress, than the power to interfere with the systems of education, the poor laws, or the road laws of the states.
Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution
thats fine, then OK will not forward the Fed’s share of the income taxes. This is line that will start it, I just don’t know which state is going to be the first to do this.
You might not be from Oklahoma, but thought the article might be of interest to you. These tactics will likely be applied to all states.
Oklahoma needs to show how seriously they take the Constitution by passing a law starting in 2012 that requires Presidential candidates that want to appear on the Oklahoma ballot to submit an original BC to prove NBC.
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