Posted on 03/04/2021 8:21:42 PM PST by blueplum
I”m with you. Increasing social security for seniors/perm disabled living below the poverty line will do more for poverty alleviation than any other measure.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
From related threads…
Patriots are reminded that, regardless what FDR’s state sovereignty-ignoring activist judges wanted everybody to think about the scope of Congress’s Commerce Clause powers when they wrongly decided Wickard v. Filburn in Congress’s favor imo, Justice Joseph Story had previously used “the wages of labor” as an example of a power that the Commerce Clause does not give to Congress.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 3: To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;"
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"Agriculture, colonies, capital, machinery, the wages of labour, the profits of stock, the rents of land, the punctual performance of contracts, and the diffusion of knowledge would all be within the scope of the power; for all of them bear an intimate relation to commerce. The result would be, that the powers of congress would embrace the widest extent of legislative functions, to the utter demolition of all constitutional boundaries between the state and national governments [emphases added]." —"Justice Joseph Story, Commerce Clause (1.8.3), 1833.
”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 the post-17th Amendment (17A) ratification, desperate Democratic-controlled Senate is once again wrongly sticking its big nose into the affairs of the sovereign states, this time by dictating unconstitutional national minimum wage.
The main reason that patriots are now being oppressed under the boots of unconstitutionally big federal government is this imo.
Regardless that the last of state sovereignty-respecting majority Supreme Court justices had clarified the fed's constitutionally limited powers in United States v. Butler, using inappropriate words like “concept" and “implied,” FDR’s state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices later scandalously initiated the politically correct repeal of the 10th Amendment (10A) in Wickard v. Filburn (Wickard).
"10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
”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.
"In discussion and decision, the point of reference, instead of being what was "necessary and proper" to the exercise by Congress of its granted power, was often some concept [???] of sovereignty thought to be implicit [??? emphases added] in the status of statehood." —Wickard v. Filburn, 1942.
And since the time of Wickard, generations of misguided voters have unthinkingly abused their 17A voting power to not only finish off 10A, but have also effectively nullified the Constitution’s Article V amendment process.
Voters have done so by electing corrupt senators who promise constitutionally indefensible federal spending programs to get themselves elected by us low-information deplorables, regardless what the states that they're supposed to be protecting from federal government overreach want.
But more specifically, what's happening is this. Clueless local and state government leaders who unthinkingly beg corrupt Congress for funding for state programs evidently don't understand the following.
The "federal" funding that state leaders regularly beg Congress for is arguably state revenues that the feds have stolen from the states by means of unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that Congress cannot justify under its limited constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited 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.
The remedy for this unconstitutional federal mayhem…
Patriots need to wake their local and state lawmakers up to the fed's constitutionally limited powers to put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes.
After unconstitutional "federal" taxes are stopped, the states will ultimately find a tsunami of new revenues that they arguably won't know what to do with imo.
And to make such changes permanent, the states need to repeal the 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments yesterday.
This plan should be called the Polishing a Turd Act of 2021.
This guy could suck the air out of a ‘57 Buick.
He’s had Fauci’s disease for decades.
Some of these people just can’t shut the heck up for more
than five minutes, it seems.
Hammer, meet nail. +1
Follow the Capitalistic System and let the fee market set wages. Keep the government out of it.
When wages are indexed to inflation (whether through minimum-wage laws, or union contracts, or however) that can cause inflation to spiral out of control. Inflation happens -> wages go up -> wage increases cause more inflation -> wage go up ....
I don’t recall getting a Senate majority in the last election. If we want to be in any position to reverse inflationary legislation, we’ll need to win both houses of Congress and the White House. Until then, we pay the consequences of losing. More power to anyone who can cut our losses in the meantime.
Which comes first???
The chicken or the egg?
The RAISE or the INFLATION????
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