Wait a minute. What about all those letters and emails I keep receiving from Rona Romney and assorted GOPers who keep promising that if I only send them $50, $100, or more they’ll continue to fight Biden.
This makes their already weak pitches down right insulting. Come election time watch them talk really brave and all tough that they need us to help them stop Biden, Pelosi, and Schumer.
Pfffft... what a joke.
Americans keep on getting fiscally raped and ask for more.
In other words, misguided, institutionally indoctrinated state lawmakers are now wrongly depending on the very corrupt, post-17th Amendment, Democratic and RINO-controlled Congress to provide unconstitutional federal funding for state infrastructure. The problem is that such funding derived from unconstitutional federal taxes, unaccountable taxes that will probably ultimately be used to help finance the reelection campaigns of desperate Democrats and RINOs.
A bigger problem with paying unconstitutional federal taxes is that the states are left with insufficient revenue to maintain their own infrastructure.
The bottom line is that Trump supporters need to get the feds out of the unconstitutional business of “helping” the states to manage their revenues and let incumbent Democrats and RINOs find another way to finance their reelection campaigns.
Next, freepers should be familiar with the following excerpts from Supreme Court case opinions that emphasize the reasonably clear language of the Commerce Clause (1.8.3).
More specifically, regardless what FDR's state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices wanted everybody to think about scope of Congress's Commerce Clause powers, it remains that previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified that the states have never expressly constitutionally given Congress the specific power to regulate INTRAstate commerce.
"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, 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” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description, as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass.” —Justice Barbour, New York v. Miln., 1837.
The collection of excerpts about Congress's limited Commerce Clause powers has now grown to four excerpts that contain similar language. They seem to have been inspired by President Thomas Jefferson, the most detailed clarification that infrastructure is a state power issue coming from Justice Joseph Story. The excerpts emphasize that Congress has no express constitutional authority to tax and spend for intrastate infrastructure purposes.
"Many are the exercises of power reserved to the States wherein a uniformity of proceeding would be advantageous to all. Such are quarantines, health laws, regulations of the press, banking institutions, training militia, etc., etc." --Thomas Jefferson to James Sullivan, 1807.
”State inspection laws, health, 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” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"They form a portion of that immense mass of legislation, which embrace every thing in the territory of a state not surrendered to the general government. Inspection laws, quarantine laws, and health laws, as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state, and others, which respect roads, fences, &c. are component parts of state legislation, resulting from the residuary powers of state sovereignty [emphasis added]. No direct power over these is given to congress, and consequently they remain subject to state legislation, though they may be controlled by congress, when they interfere with their acknowledged powers." --Justice Joseph Story, Article I, Section 10, Clause 2, 1833.
“Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description, as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass.” —Justice Barbour, New York v. Miln., 1837.
In other words, all that minority federal RINOs need to argue to stop unconstitutional state infrastructure taxing and spending by the feds is to point out that the states have never expressly constitutionally given Congress the specific power to dictate, regulate, tax and spend in the name of intrastate infrastructure.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"
“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.
(Again,) "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.
Trumps supporters need to primary incumbent federal and state lawmakers who don't send their supporters emails ASAP that clearly promise to introduce legislation to put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxing and spending for state infrastructure within 100 days after start of new legislative session.
Insights welcome.