[CedarDave]

Raising taxes, that's what Democrats do. In this case someone's cooking the books as it looks like NM will have a $1.2 billion dollar surplus from the oil and gas industry.

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[gibsonguy]

“Raising taxes, that’s what Democrats do. “

Ain’t that the truth. We lost the Governor in 18 here in Michigan. Within 2 months of taking office the Rat started pushing a FORTY FIVE cent per gallon tax increase.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Raising taxes is one thing. But this Rube Goldberg scheme injects a level of uncertainty that makes it virtually impossible to do any financial planning. Anyone with a buck is going to flee.

[House Atreides]

The good news is that the additional state taxes collected by this 1% increase in the top rate will not be deductible (with rare hypothetical exceptions) on federal tax returns. Another incentive for large earners to FLEE.

[Amendment10]

All patriots in the nation need to come to the rescue of taxpayers in misguided, mismanaged, Democratic-controlled states like NM, CA, NY, IL, et al., by doing the following.

Patriots need to elect a new patriot Congress in the 2020 elections that will not only promise to support PDJT’s vision for MAGA, now KAG, but will also do this.

New patriot lawmakers need to support PJDT in putting a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that previous corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification, post-FDR era congresses could not reasonably justify under Congress's constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.

"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.



Once unconstitutional federal taxes are stopped, the states will ultimately find new revenues to care for the people as the Founding States had expected the states, not the feds, to do.

In fact, the congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham had clarified that the Founding States had left the care of the people to the states, not the feds.

”... the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Federal Constitution, is in the States, and not in the Federal Government [emphases added].” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe, 1866. (See about middle of 3rd column.)

Justice Brandeis had put it this way about the unique, 10th Amendment (10A) powers of the states to serve the people.

• "10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

• "It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose [emphasis added], serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” — Justice Brandeis, Laboratories of democracy.

(Note that constitutional limits on states as laboratories of democracy is that the states cannot establish privileged / protected classes or abridge constitutionally enumerated rights, and must maintain a constitutionally guaranteed republican form of government.)

Finally, the reason that citizens are now being oppressed by the unconstitutionally big federal government on their backs despite constitutional safeguards is this imo.

Using inappropriate words like "concept" and "implicit" here is what was left of unique, 10A-protected powers of the states to serve the people after FDR’s state sovereignty-ignoring, activist majority justices got finished with it in Wickard v. Filburn.

• "10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

• "In discussion and decision, the point of reference, instead of being what was "necessary and proper" to the exercise by Congress of its granted power, was often some concept [???] of sovereignty thought to be implicit [??? emphases added] in the status of statehood." —Wickard v. Filburn, 1942

And to make restored state powers permanent, patriots also need to support PDJT in leading the states to repeal the 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments.

Remember in November 2020!

MAGA! Now KAG! (Keep America Great!)

[Sequoyah101]

Oklahoma went into a panic and raised taxes two years ago as well. Everytime they raise taxes they manage to piss it all away in the next boom cycle. Idiots.

[shotgun]

Never enough money for democrats...

[Bubba_Leroy]

I don’t mind all of the New Mexico refugees who are now going to move here to Texas as long as they don’t keep voting for the same crap that drove them out of their state.

[Bubba_Leroy]

I don’t mind all of the New Mexico refugees who are now going to move here to Texas as long as they don’t keep voting for the same crap that drove them out of their state.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Another state ruined by Marxists, Mexican irredentists, and white leftist.

Hope the remaining Indians take to the war-path again. I’ll provide them with roadmaps to their targets. Good Hunting, Will!

[mo]

the Left always seems to manage to $%it where they live....and then move and do it all over again