Noting that I will gladly vote for Trump if nominated for president, it remains that Trump is a constitutionally low-information citizen imo. Trumps supporters need to get him up to speed with the following information concerning Congresss limited power to appropriate taxes.
From a related thread . . .
A previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified that Congress is prohibited from laying taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers. This is evidenced by the excerpt below.
”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.
In fact, based on the Courts statement above, here is a rough approximation of how much taxpayers should be paying Congress annually to perform its Section 8-limited power duties.
Given that the plurality of clauses in Section 8 deal with defense, and given that the Department of Defense budget for 2015 was $500+ billion, I will generously round up the $500+ billion figure to $1 trillion (but probably much less) as the annual price tag of the federal government to the taxpayers.
In other words, the corrupt media, including Obama guard dog Fx News, should not be reporting multi-trillion dollar annual federal budgets without mentioning the Supreme Courts clarification of Congresss limited power to appropriate taxes in budget discussions.
Remember in November!
When patriots elect Trump, or whatever conservative they elect, they need to also elect a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will work within its Section 8-limited powers to support the new president.
Also consider that such a Congress would probably be more willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
“They need to also elect a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will work within its Section 8-limited powers to support the new president. “
I believe it is far, far too late for that. All things federal only play to win for federal interests. Everything else is a sham for them.
Lincoln burned Washington’s prayer bench. DC has never looked back after that. See Lincoln’s cabinet.