Not just the Republicans. The whole freaking country.
It’s federal budget discussion time again ! =^)
From a related thread …
Regardless what FDR’s state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices wanted everybody to believe about the scope of Congress’s Commerce Clause powers (1.8.3), a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified that Congress is prohibited from appropriating taxes in the name of state power issues.
In other words, Congress cannot appropriate taxes for any issue that it cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, appropriating taxes for vote-winning Planned Parenthood funding for example, not among those powers.
”Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” - Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Based on the Court’s statement above, here is a rough approximation of how much taxpayers should be paying Congress annually to perform its Section 8-limited power duties.
Given that the plurality of clauses in Section 8 deal with defense, and given that the Department of Defense budget for 2015 was $500+ billion, I will generously round up the $500+ billion figure to $1 trillion (but probably much less) as the annual price tag of the federal government to the taxpayers.
In other words, the corrupt media, including Obama guard dog Fx Noise, should not be reporting multi-trillion dollar annual federal budgets without mentioning the Supreme Court’s clarification of Congress’s limited power to appropriate taxes in budget discussions.
Remember in November !
When patriots elect Trump, Cruz, or whatever conservative they elect, they need to also elect a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its Section 8-limited powers to support the new president, but also protect the states from unconstitutional federal government overreach, including putting a stop to unconstitutional federal taxing and spending.
Also, consider that such a Congress would probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
As long as we have a pure fiat, debt based monetary system, the Budget Can NEVER BE Balanced.
And they wonder “why Trump?”
These numbers make no sense.
The Feds spent $3.69 trillion last year.
Politicians sell their souls for party politics at the expense of the dwindling general working Americans . More than ever we need a strong leader not bought by big money to run the largest business in the world and get this spending under control.
President Trump: we need to see results from day one of your administration. Make us proud to be Americans who have discovered what frugality means.
Thanks for the post. I find myself reading the Daily Signal more as it hasn’t become 24 hour Trump/Cruz election site. That being said, it is said that your post only got 21 comments. Free Republic is turning into the TRUMP REPUBLIC. I am concerned that the movement’s eye is no longer on the ball anymore and it thinks all the solutions rest with electing Trump.