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Markey: Biden Using 14th Amendment Necessary if GOP Not Reasonable
Breitbart ^ | 05/18/2023 | Pam Key

Posted on 05/18/2023 3:25:53 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Katy Tur Reports” that President Joe Biden should use the 14th Amendment to address the debt ceiling if Republicans are not reasonable.

Markey said, “I would ask when you put up that poll that you also put up the identical poll on tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires and trillions of dollars that have been given to them over the last five years.”

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KEYWORDS: 14thamendment; amendment; biden; fourteenthamendment; gop; market
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To: nickcarraway

It sure looks that way!


21 posted on 05/18/2023 3:58:31 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Renfrew

“Except for the huge difference that the gov’t can print the money that they use to pay.”

Will Biden be able to twist the Federal Reserve to donate a trillion or two?

I don’t know the answer. Do anybody here know?


22 posted on 05/18/2023 3:59:43 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’ll take tyranny for $800, Alex.


23 posted on 05/18/2023 4:01:10 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Republicans are being reasonable Joe - Democrats can buy the votes of 47% of Americans but not 51%.


24 posted on 05/18/2023 4:02:14 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Congress can get an injunction blocking unlawful Treasury debt issue.

Amendment XIV only protects US debt authorized by law, not debt issued by unauthorized persons.


25 posted on 05/18/2023 4:06:45 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin

Remember there was talk that the Fed could mint a trillion dollar coin, and deposit it into the federal treasury?


26 posted on 05/18/2023 4:10:52 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If Idiot wants to pay the national debt, he’s welcome to do so with all the money his family has stolen or blackmailed or shook down


27 posted on 05/18/2023 4:12:29 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Political Junkie Too
Article 4 of The 14th doesn't actually say they must be paid, it says the public debt shall not be questioned. Basically that means the Gov't. can't deny it exists It does not say it MUST be paid when due. But it does say Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of the Amendment. Presidents have nothing whatsoever to do with enforcing the 14th.
28 posted on 05/18/2023 4:27:27 PM PDT by jpp113
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To: nickcarraway

“Is he going to make us all slaves?”

Sincerely doubt that as the slaves have all been freed and then he would owe everyone reparations. The debt ceiling couldn’t be covered with any funds they or the US has in the country.

wy69


29 posted on 05/18/2023 4:40:41 PM PDT by whitney69
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Pedo-Joe Biden is already violating the 14th amendment himself.

He is denying citizens equal protection of the law as guaranteed by the 14th amendment with his open border policy
that allows illegal aliens to endanger and harm citizens in many ways up to and including rape and murder.


30 posted on 05/18/2023 5:01:15 PM PDT by Iron Munro ( Michael Byrd: "Well, Somebody had to do it - Babbitt wasn't gonna' shoot herself!")
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To: Iron Munro

That’s not the correct meaning of the 14th but you’re still right: Biden is violating the Amendment by allowing foreign nationals - who aren’t even incorporated by the Constitution - to violate laws with impunity.

That makes them above the law, and the citizenry beholden to it. Thus it is unequal treatment.

This has been labeled Anarcho-Tyranny, and is the current state of “law enforcement in the US.


31 posted on 05/18/2023 5:40:06 PM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: jpp113
I agree with your clarification of my remarks.

-PJ

32 posted on 05/18/2023 6:37:15 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: sport

Not to much for me to disagree with there hotrod.

Biden is just a term for DC 2023.

The New World Order is in full charge mode.


33 posted on 05/18/2023 6:45:42 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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Say what you will, massive amounts of our nation’s tax
collections come from the wealthy.

Sure they avoid taxes all they can. Don’t we?


34 posted on 05/18/2023 6:47:04 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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