Hell, no. You voters put these clowns into office and let them buy votes using future income, so the piper’s here to get paid. You might also suggest that your elected officials cut current spending significantly.
Calif has plenty of money. We regulate cow farts and provide billions in services to illegal aliens. We’re number 50 in infrastructure needs and no one is worried. We are spending over 80 billion on a high speed train. So what’s the problem. If we were really strapped, we wouldn’t be doing these things would we?
I would like to see States be able to go bankrupt due to their corruption and inability to be fiscally responsible.
With the following condition:
All debts and contracts will be null and void.
The State will be immediately turned into a territory. The State shall loose all Senators and Congressmen and all representation in the Federal Government to include the right to vote in Federal Elections.
A Federal Governor will then be appointed to run the State under Federal Receivership. He/She will be able to make all decisions until that time as the territory will be admitted back into the union with a positive financial history.
“Since 1937, the bankruptcy code has allowed ‘municipalities’ to declare bankruptcy. The term ‘municipality’ is defined in the bankruptcy code as a ‘political subdivision or public agency or instrumentality of a state.’ This definition is broad enough to include cities, counties, townships, school districts and public improvement districts. “
So, the Democrats will proceed thusly:
1) Create a bunch of new “improvement districts” and other entities that could be considered as “municipalities”.
2) Have those assume the bulk of the state’s debt.
3) Have those municipal sub-entities declare bankruptcy while the state starts fresh.
My God, I’m starting to think like a corrupt Democrat lawyer!
As a side note to this thread, please consider the following.
As mentioned in related threads, if the states would support Trump in putting a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that uniparty lawmakers cannot justify under Congress’s constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, then the following would probably happen imo.
The states would probably find a tsunami of new state revenues (higher state taxes) that the states wouldn’t know what to do with, establishing their own healthcare programs, improving public education, increasing funding for police and fire department, fixing infrastructure for starters.
“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.
”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.
Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!
Remember in November ’18 !
Since Trump entered the ’16 presidential race too late for patriots to make sure that there were state sovereignty-respecting candidates on the primary ballots, patriots need make sure that such candidates are on the ’18 primary ballots so that they can be elected to support Trump in draining the unconstitutionally big federal government swamp.
Such a Congress will also be able to finish draining the swamp with respect to getting the remaining state sovereignty-ignoring, activist Supreme Court justices off of the bench.
In fact, if Justice Gorsuch turns out to be a liberal Trojan Horse then we will need 67 patriot senators to remove a House-impeached Gorsuch from office.
Noting that the primaries start in Iowa and New Hampshire in February ‘18, patriots need to challenge candidates for federal office in the following way.
While I Googled the primary information above concerning Iowa and New Hampshire, FReeper iowamark brought to my attention that the February primaries for these states apply only to presidential election years. And after doing some more scratching, since primary dates for most states for 2018 elections probably haven’t been uploaded at this time (March 14, 2017), FReepers will need to find out primary dates from sources and / or websites in their own states.
Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.
Patriots also need to find candidates that are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed above.
From the famous Daily News headline:"Ford to NYC:Drop Dead"