I wish it would happen, but it won’t. The 17th amendment is here to stay. The big problem rests with the high tax states that avoid paying their fair share of federal taxes. It’s a rigged system for states like NY, NJ, MA, etc.
With all due respect Neoliberalnot, it was also said that Pres. Trump was unelectable.
"The big problem rests with the high tax states that avoid paying their fair share of federal taxes."
Are you aware that a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court justices had clarified that Congress is prohibited from appropriating taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue that Congress cannot justify under its 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.
So a very high percentage of federal taxes are unconstitutional imo, a consequence of 17A and a corrupt Senate.
In fact, the Court had also previously clarified that the states have never expressly constitutional delegated to the feds the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for INTRAstate healthcare issues. So Obamacare is unconstitutional regardless what lawless Obama’s activist justices want everybody to think imo.
"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.
If anybody can clean up the swamp, it’s Pres. Trump. But we need to give him a Congress that will support him in 2018.
We also need to repeal 17A to make Trump’s vision for MAGA basically permanent.
It is unfair for the blue states to be subsidized by the rest of America many of whom, by the way, are not making ends meet any better.
Rather than complaining that their subsidies are vanishing they should be getting ready to contribute to the groundswell of people in their state demanding more fiscal responsibility and less Government graft & handouts. If other states are able to run tighter ships NJ etc should be able to do that as well and would be stronger & more prosperous if they did.
BTW I live in NJ so if the middle class in blue states take a hit so will I.