Everyone wants smaller government but no one wants anything cut.
"Everyone wants smaller government but no one wants anything cut."
Patriots are reminded that the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the corrupt feds the specific powers to establish most of the federal social spending programs that many citizens are now depending on.
This is evidenced by the following excerpts from the writings of Thomas Jefferson and previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court justices.
"Our citizens have wisely formed themselves into one nation as to others and several States as among themselves. To the united nation belong our external and mutual relations; to each State, severally, the care of our persons [emphasis added], our property, our reputation and religious freedom.” —Thomas Jefferson: To Rhode Island Assembly, 1801.
“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.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
So patriots need to support Pres. Trump in working with the states to peacefully “force” the corrupt feds to surrender state powers that the feds have stolen from states back to the states.
After that is done, a substantial percentage of personal federal taxes would probably disappear — and let’s repeal the 16th Amendment to make that official.
And although state taxes would need to go up so that the states can establish their own social spending programs based on 10th Amendment-protected state powers, it would be easier for the citizens of a given state to work with their state lawmakers to make laws that make it easier for a state’s voters to fire bad-apple state lawmakers and other crook officials.
Note that unlike corruption in the federal government which can affect all citizens in the nation, fallout from government corruption in one state would at least be minimized in other states imo.
Insights welcome.