But reducing goobermint back to within it's Constitutional limits and end career politicians would. The endless wars to enrich the career politicians and billions upon billions in foreign aid kickback schemes to line their pockets should also cease.
"Trump’s Tariff Trap. Replacing income taxes with tariffs doesn’t pencil out."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Consider that Thomas Jefferson had noted that the federal government was originally totally funded by tariffs that the rich paid on imported goods. (Constitutional Convention delegates that were wealthy, maybe their wealthy friends too, seem to have put their money where their mouths were.)
“The rich alone use imported articles, and on these alone the whole taxes of the General Government are levied [emphasis added]. … Our revenues liberated by the discharge of the public debt, and its surplus applied to canals, roads, schools, etc., the farmer will see his government supported, his children educated, and the face of his country made a paradise by the contributions of the rich alone, without his being called on to spend a cent from his earnings.” —Thomas Jefferson to Thaddeus Kosciusko, 1811.
Militia readiness aside, one of the very few main peacetime expenses that the states expressly gave to the constitutionally limited power Congress was to run the US Mail Service.
In other words, most of today's federal domestic spending is based on stolen state powers and stolen state revenues uniquely associated with those powers as shown below.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"
"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.
Democratic and Republican patriots need to get hopeful Trump 47 and the new Constitution-respecting Congress that they support him with in November up to speed with unconstitutional federal taxing and spending, a consequence of generations of abuse of 16th Amendment powers (direct taxes) by corrupt Congress imo.
"16th Amendment : The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived [emphasis added], without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
"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.
“If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
The congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had clarified the federal government's constitutionally limited powers as follows.
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." (non-FR; 6 sec.)
Democrats [and RINOs] Are Terrified Of An Educated And Informed Public (3.12.23)
Once unconstitutional federal taxing and spending is stopped, hopefully “permanently” with a repeal of the 16th and 17th Amendments, then Trump might have a good opportunity to run the constitutionally limited power federal government with the tariffs on imports that Jefferson had mentioned.
How quaint, thinking about pencils for $34T +. In debt
Well, replacing income tax for sales tax! Tariffs are kind of VAT, but applying to foreign made products only.
I like it!
NeoCON free traitor globohomos say tariffs are bad because muh corporations can’t exploit cheap 3rd world labor - news at 11.
This is all moot as congress will never go along with it.
Tariffs worked pretty good up until Woodrow Wilson got in.
But our present tax structure “pencils out” to your satisfaction????
Outside the military maybe, hundreds of thousands of fedgov employees, armies of bureaucrats are not needed. They’re choking off the American people and it only grows. Send them into the private sector to actually learn a skill so they can be productive.
That’s another thing if Xiden steals 2024: Taxes will skyrocket to further finance illegals and terrorism
Trump’s Tariff Trap. Replacing income taxes with tariffs doesn’t pencil out.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
BUahahahahahahahaha.
Under Trump America would more than double its GDP.
THe author stupidly assumes that is not the case even when faced with the historical evidence of the effect of Trump’s economic policies.This i s utter propaganda.
Social Security will be “saved” because of that fact of a doubled GDP. And whats more, the figures on substituting tarrifs for taxes are much more viable.
Let Chbina and others pay for our givernment funding....we have paid for theirs for over 40 years.
It was an idea. It was not a policy provision. It’s like the idea, can we ship metal to earth from asteroids?
Personally, I’d like to end the income tax. To me it’s a violation of privacy protected in the constitution, it’s easily manipulated and burdensome, and it requires enormous time and effort. Get rid of it.
That's not a flaw. Government spending needs to be tun in half. Several agencies I could name need to be defunded and dismantled.
What could possibly go wrong?
But reducing goobermint back to within it's Constitutional limits and end career politicians would. The endless wars to enrich the career politicians and billions upon billions in foreign aid kickback schemes to line their pockets should also cease.