“It seems to me that they have compromised their status as independent sovereigns because they are so dependent on what the federal government has done,” the chief justice said during Wednesday’s nearly three hours of hearings on the controversial health insurance law.
Indeed, our last line of defense against an out-of-control national government has sold itself into slavery and as Roberts stated, “compromised their status as independent sovereigns.” Sadly, everybody is so focused on a pretend solution (i.e. getting a republican into the White House) they’re ignoring the very entity that could actually reign in the national government...the States.
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Indeed, our last line of defense against an out-of-control national government has sold itself into slavery and as Roberts stated, “compromised their status as independent sovereigns.” Sadly, everybody is so focused on a pretend solution (i.e. getting a republican into the White House) they’re ignoring the very entity that could actually reign in the national government...the States.
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Your Absoulty right mek1959, The sad irony is, the wording of Article 1 section 8 clause 1 of the Federal Constitution was expcisly designed to prohibit such by limiting Federal expenditures(either from tax or debt) to Both enumerated and uniform applications.
The Federal court has ignore this, and the States that enforce it find their competition holding paper they are forced to honor as “legal tender”. (Anther lawless problem that started either with the Lincoln administration which we will not go into).
The point is theses problems compound upon each other, and ultimately come down to money. The good news is with modern tecnoligy we have the practical ability to work around such things better. We can simply demand an absurdly large amount of Federal reserve notes or a fixed amount of money in coins.
Our States can make the coins Legal tender so that folks who go around with coins instead of Federal Reserve notes will always be able to use them.(Note we would still be using credit & debit cards, as well as checks they just be measured in coins, rather than Federal Reserve notes.)
So there are many clever things we can do to attack the problem.
If the Feds even nominally follow the Constitution we can uses tricks like this made possible by modern tecnoligy to weaken their financial footing, while stabling our own. Of course as you know the Feds don’t follow the rules even nominally, and they will as such attack gold & silver currency’s particular if they ever become popular.