Sad to say but I think you would get more support for a constitutional amendment allowing the federal government to run such a program than prohibiting it. Of course that is how it should have been done in the first place.
Thanks to the 16th amendment and the Wickard vs Filburn decision there is little the federal government can't do. What we really need is constitutional amendments limiting the commerce clause back to only interstate commerce and limiting the Feds taxation powers.
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Thanks to the 16th amendment and the Wickard vs Filburn decision there is little the federal government can’t do. What we really need is constitutional amendments limiting the commerce clause back to only interstate commerce and limiting the Feds taxation powers.
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Like the Con con: let’s re-state what can/cannot be done w/ MORE verbiage, as Fedzilla has ignored the original text and the writings of the time.
Ummm...no thanks.
My $.02, the 16th should be ruled void outright. It, unlike other Amendments, does nothing to ‘over-turn’ other Amendments: 4th, 5th, 13th.
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The problem is that this program was ruled constitutional by the Supreme Court under the taxation powers of the 16th amendment, so it is constitutional
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Yes, we all know how THAT game is played. Watched a re-run during the O’Care show. Power of taxation was NEVER the question/issue; the *AUTHORITY* of which the taxes are to pay FOR, on the other hand...
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Sad to say but I think you would get more support for a constitutional amendment allowing the federal government to run such a program than prohibiting it. Of course that is how it should have been done in the first place.
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Still NOTHING in A1S8 or any other A. stating different.
But, s* in one hand and hope in the other (of a return to a Republic) and see which one fills up first. For a site of ‘stalwart Conservatism’, we have a majority in the thread brain-storming how to keep the damn thing going longer!