Posted on 11/18/2012 7:14:05 PM PST by campg
How long do you think it would take before people tried to start up the same old gravy train? At the very least, there would have to be enshrined into law that government could not take from one to give to another, for any reason, even if that seems a “good” thing to do. Second, only net taxpayers would be allowed to vote.
The only charity would come from private, voluntary donations. How many Americans do you think would go for that? Not many, I’m afraid, because most people are ignorant of how freedom and the market produce real prosperity and help the poor the most.
One way to choose is to have enough states dissolve the present federal government, but the necessary Constitutional Convention scares too many people more than another four years of The Obama Regime does.
States could stop accepting federal money for any project. This will send bureaucrats into a tizzy. Moreover, states could stop giving the federal government blanket approval for acquisition of property. This would impose roadblocks to some expansions of the federal government. It would really send federal bureaucrats into a tizzy.
Consider the Enclave Clause, found in Article I, Section 8:
“Congress may exercise exclusive legislative “authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings;”
What if states, wanting to object to encroachments on our liberties by the federal government, stopped automatically granting blanket consent, but instead required the federal government to apply for each parcel of land in question and to pay a processing fee, of say $1 million per application?
Or what if the States just treated the federal government like the feds treat people who attempt to register Class III firearms— that is they must pay the stamp tax, but the Treasury Department is not accepting any further payments?
Consider how this would be a tremendous thorn in the side of the feds.
We already did that experiment with Germany and Korea.
Look at the map of who voted which way by county, and you see how narrow is the Obama base of support, and how concentrated are the precincts are that permit voter fraud.
We already split up the country once-
Canada got the liberal policies. Now the liberals want the rest. No. They can’t have it.
I’ve jokingly told my wife maybe it’s time for a split, and she thought I was serious. I am semi-serious. It would be interesting to see something like that tried on an experimental basis just to show libs what life in a thoroughly socialist country would be like. The fact is the poorest 25% of Americans now, Blacks and Hispanics, would constitute 50% of the population in the socialist U.S. They are the segment of the current population with the highest numbers of people on government aid i.e. welfare and other “freebies” taken from the country’s taxpayers. We’d see how the few producers in the socialist U.S. would like having 90+ percent of their income taken from them.
I think people would be given a choice of which country they want to live in. I can't imagine all the people on gov. aid or all the snooty libs choosing a free-enterprise, constitutionally based U.S.
WALL THEM IN.
Unfortunately the takers will never split from the makers. Their right to mooch is the one and only thing they’ll fight for.
If those are the only people running, we don’t have a choice. Romney wasn’t much of a choice.
I am so ready for a divorce!
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A serious divorce means secession And secession is at the state level. Cute rant though.
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