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.
I don’t disagree with anything you wrote. I just said the 17th amendment will not be repealed. I did not write that it shouldn’t.