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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!
There is no provision in the constitution for voiding an amendment. The only thing you can do is pass another amendment to repeal or modify it.
They say that politics is the art of the possible so with 66% of retired Americans depending on social security for at least half or more of their retirement it would be political suicide to try and get rid of social security. Since we just got control of the federal government I would hate for us to lose it because of this.
I want to see a wall built, Muslim immigration stopped, and jobs come back to America. I don’t want to piss away the chance to accomplish these goals to fight a battle we cannot win.