Posted on 11/03/2004 2:22:35 PM PST by TortReformer
I'd propose a loser pays situation as one option. It might remove frivolous lawsuits and certainly provide for someone to stop and think before litigating when something doesn't go to suit them.
OK, but what is the constitutional basis for federal tort reform?
be careful with this one. What ought to be changed is taxpayer support through governemnt grants to mostly left wing non-profits. Judicial Watch, Heritage Foundation, Cato and otehrs thrive on PRIVATE donations and shun government grants. (PETA, Sierra Club and others take federal funds and then yammer about how Bush isn't doing enough to protect the environment. So we hand them a bullet and they use it against us).
Abolish welfare assistance.
Indict college instructors who preach socialism with sedition and make sure they are convicted.
I have a few others in mind but these would be a start.
A cold shock of real life would snap them out of it real quick. These two suggestions I believe are a good start.
Your priority is a keyboard with a lower case option.
The NRST bills currently in the House and Senate repeal all income, payroll, gift, and estate taxes by amending USC 26 to remove the corresponding sections.
Absolutely right. No tax money for left-wing Non profits.
Did I mention nuking the UN Building? Oh good.
I seemed to get flamed around here when mentioning immigration reform. How have your responses been?
Also, it seems that Bush pandered to the hispanic vote. What if he believes that worked? He may be reluctant to propose anything.
We probably need to really push the House and Senate to send him a bill.
Even better. Shoot the lobbyists that are holding our congress hostage.
That's an excellent question. Perhaps we need to get the changes done on the state level.
No, they'll just do what they do now. Pass another half-trillion dollar entitlement and not worry about who pays for it.
Term limits for congressmen and senators would fix darn near everything.
I don't really get flamed for bringing it up, but I do consider it a major problem considering 3 million illegals enter this country every year. Where are they? Who are they? We don't know squat about them, but we accept them anyway.
I Bush abolished the IRS in its current form and established a national sales tax and Flat tax, that actually worked, he would go down as one of the greats.
Tax lawyers/HR block would hate his guts, but who cares what they think?
That's my point. We can change the rules and even the jurisdiction for cases brought in federal court, but what is the basis for federal regulation of the state court system. I know the answer (psst...its the Commerce Clause), but I'd long been an advocate of rolling back so-called Commerce Clause laws and regulations.
Thomas Sowell wrote an excellent article on term limits. It wasn't what you might anticipate. He suggested amending the constitution and:
1. One six year term only for Reps or Sens
2. Pay them $1,000,000 a year
3. No perks, no retirement
The cost for 100 years would be less than running the Dept. of Ag. for one year.
With only one term, time, effort, energy and money would not be wasted in ginning up for reelection.
You're correct in the Constitutional basis. Torts are part of common law and thus constitutional. But what we have done is used statutory law as a substitute for pure commonlaw, which puts legal interpretation on a slippery slope than rely on precedent exclusively from common law.
Environmental law is a case in point. Government grants a permit to pollute under statute, though the pollution harms my property rights, to which a remedy should be available via torts. Where is the constitutional basis in harming my property rights through a permit system?
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