[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Tax Reform Amendment

I like your list quite well, though I’d prefer more formal language for some of them.

I do have one more serious quibble - you mention forfeiture of pensions for misbehavior. That seems to establish a precedent against term limits. Under term limits, nobody should be an elected officer long enough to justify getting a pension from it.

My other impulse is to add things which would make it even more impossible to get ratified. But they’d be off-topic.

[OneWingedShark]

I like your list quite well, though I’d prefer more formal language for some of them.

Thank you.

I do have one more serious quibble - you mention forfeiture of pensions for misbehavior. That seems to establish a precedent against term limits. Under term limits, nobody should be an elected officer long enough to justify getting a pension from it.

I'm not thinking solely of elected officials, but also the unelected bureaucrats and judges. The inclusion of elected officials therein is to emphasize that they are not immune (it is, after all, loss of position in addition to pensions).

My other impulse is to add things which would make it even more impossible to get ratified. But they’d be off-topic.

I have three other amendments I've been working on — one that would remove the ability of the federal government to define the value of the Dollar (defining it in terms of physical gold) and limiting the amount of debt that can be incurred to 110% of the amount [of physical gold] the Treasury has possession of and forbidding the imposition of unfunded liabilities upon the states. &mdashl I think that one would be more impossible than this one.