17th Amendment had nothing to do w income taxes. But I agree to repealing per original Constitution.
17th Amendment
Proposed 1912;Ratified 1913
1. The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures.
I respectfully disagree.
One of the reasons that the Founding States established the Senate was so that the Senate could protect the states from the feds by killing unconstitutional House appropriations bills, bills that not only steal state powers, but also steal state revenues uniquely associated with those powers.
This is evidenced by the following clarifications of the fed’s constitutionally limited powers by previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court justices.
“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.
But federal lawmakers now regularly use the 17th Amendment to exploit low-information voters. Career lawmakers do this by promising such voters every entitlement program under the sun in order to get elected and reelected.
The problem is that low-information voters evidently do not understand that the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to establish entitlement programs. This gets us back to Bingham’s clarification that the Founding States uniquely trusted the care of the people to the states, not the feds.
”... the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Federal Constitution, is in the States, and not in the Federal Government [emphases added].” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe, 1866. (See about middle of 3rd column.)
In other words, misguided ordinary voters unthinkingly use their 17th Amendment voting power to elect corrupt senators who approve unconstitutional taxes, arguably stolen state revenues, that the feds collect through the 16th Amendment to establish and run unconstitutional entitlement programs.
This is why patriots need to work with their state lawmakers to support Pres. Trump in leading the states to repeal the 16th and 17th Amendments so that Trump's vision for MAGA lasts for many generations.