I’ve been pondering an “American Citizen Liberty” amendment to the US constitution.
What it would do is offer all citizens the right to “opt out” of any direct involvement with the federal government, without penalty.
If they chose to opt out of Social Security and Medicare or Obamacare, they could not be taxed to support them. And after consideration, I think even the military draft should be part of the opt out as well.
They could not be compelled into federal involvement through their employment or investments, or travel across state lines. Nor could they be denied a passport, nor forbidden goods or services provided to the public by a federal contract, or the US post office.
Any compelling federal interface, like an exact enumeration in a census, would have to be done through their state.
Granted, this idea needs work, but it is a good rough draft.
We already tried that...I was called the Constitution. Worked pretty well until (some would say) Lincoln; most would theorize ~1910.
I mean, what other way to explain why D.C. cannot ‘define’ “Shall not be infringed”, “Congress SHALL make no Law” and a plethora of other simple-English phrases; but the Commerce CLAUSE negates the defined limits of A1S8 and all other anti-Fed practices....