> “The bottom line is that the 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and activist justices along with it.”
No argument here but it’s a longer term proposition. It won’t happen soon enough. A new amendment is needed now that will sail through quickly; my preference is that is be one that empowers state legislators and the people.
For argument’s sake, if patriots wake up low-information state lawmakers to the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers, especially stolen state revenues in the form of unconstitutional federal taxes, then the Constitution can probably be amended sooner than the corrupt feds would like to think.
In fact, regarding getting rid of the IRS, state lawmakers are probably in a better position than Cruz to argue that getting rid of IRS will be one of the major benefits of repealing 17A.