“As for the tax thing, the congress has ALWAYS had this power.”
Wrong. They have never been able to tax INACTIVITY. They have had the power to tax the states (fair aportionment or whatever), implement excise taxes (tax activity) and tax income of any sort (16th ammendment.)
By instituting a new ability to tax INACTIVITY, we have just removed any remaining limits on the Federal Government. In addition, we have no legal remedy to fix this Constitutinal Crisis!
America died yesterday...she was already severely wounded, but we now have no legal recourse to “re-limit” the federal government’s reach.
Here is the 16th amendment to the constitution... please list for me the restrictions...
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.