Homelessness is simply NOT a federal government issue. The Constitution gives the feds NO authority or power over homelessness. It is a local/states’ issue. SCOTUS would get it right by remanding it to the state(s) where the issue belongs.
Common.
What will it take to get us back to our Free Constitutional Republic with a constitutionally VERY limited federal government and constitutional state sovereignty?
“Homelessness is simply NOT a federal government issue. The Constitution gives the feds NO authority or power over homelessness. “
Oh yeah? Next you’ll be saying the Federal Government has no place specifying what flavor tobacco should be, or what how many flushes per gallon my toilet should have, or what kind of light bulb I use. /s
Not only homelessness, but public safety/policing and banking regulation as well.
Woody Guthrie (yeah, a commie symp) wrote a tune called “Do Re Mi”. About the Dust Bowl days.
California had State Troopers on the roads at ports of entry. They would not allow people to enter the state without visible means of support. As in “Believe it t or not, you won’t find it so hot, if you ain’t a got the Do Re Mi” Cash. It was a substantial amount.
From the state of California’s perspective, unemployment was 25%, not counting ranchers or farmers. There were no jobs for them, and no way to feed them. No housing for them.
And no “Welfare” as it is understood today. Nothing. So turning away hordes of impoverished - without the means to help them, what is the immediate short term answer?
"Homelessness is simply NOT a federal government issue. The Constitution gives the feds NO authority or power over homelessness. It is a local/states’ issue. SCOTUS would get it right by remanding it to the state(s) where the issue belongs."
I agree 100%.
First, the bottom line.
The broader picture about homeless is his. The corrupt, constitutionally undefined political parties are working to establish a permanent puppet presidency that will unquestioningly sign unconstitutional taxing and spending bills into law.
But more specifically concerning how unconstitutional, unaccountable federal government taxes are huring the homeless, consider this. As a consequence of corrupt Congress's abuse of its repealable 16th Amendment powers (direct taxes), Congress is effectively stealing state revenues, including citizen's wallets, by means of taxes that the post-17th Amendment ratification Congress cannot reasonably justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers and a few other constitutionally enumerated expenses.
In other words, there is a bunch of "federal" taxes, actually state revenues imo, that should never have left the states, revenues that the states could be using to take care of the homeless and many other things.
Note that Justice Joseph Story had explained that "poor laws" are a state power issue.
"The power to regulate manufactures is no more confided to congress, than the power to interfere with the systems of education, the poor laws, or the road laws of the states [emphasis added]." —Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2, 1833.
From the congressional record, a clarification about the federal government's constitutionally limited powers by Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker:
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
Federal government welfare is unconstitutional imo, just a way for corrupt politicians to buy votes.
The remedy for unconstitutionally big federal government oppressing everybody under its boots...
Democratic and Republican Trump supporters not only need to support hopeful Trump 47 with a new patriot Congress so that Trump will not be a lame duck president from the first day of his second term, but the new Congress has to support Trump to do the following concerning unconstitutional federal taxes.
Trump needs to lead the states to put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes by effectively "seceding" ALL the states from the unconstitutionally big federal government by repealing the 16th and 17th Amendments (16&17A).
Consider the repealing of 16&17A as part of reparations for victim taxpayers of the corrupt federal government for having to pay a lifetime of unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that Congress cannot reasonably justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers and a few other constitutionally enumerated expenses.
Again, the broader picture is that corrupt political party and media fuss about "obsolete" electoral college is because the electoral college is the only thing stopping the corrupt political parties that have pirated control of state and federal governments from establishing a permanent puppet presidency that will unquestioningly sign unconstitutional taxing and spending bills into law.
"16th Amendment : The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived [emphasis added], without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
"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.
“If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
(Again) From the congressional record:
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." (non-FR; 6 sec.)
Democrats [and RINOs] Are Terrified Of An Educated And Informed Public (3.12.23)
This is actually a case where it looks like SCOTUS will undo a bad policy adopted by the Ninth Circuit Cout of Appeals. See, FTA:
“Grants Pass lawyers explain that the 9th Circuit has “erected a judicial roadblock” affecting virtually every municipality in the West, preventing them from clearing encampments. The results are “crime, fires, the reemergence of medieval diseases, environmental harm, and record levels of drug overdoses, and deaths on public streets.”
“Phoenix city officials, in a friend-of-the-court brief, complain that 9th Circuit judges are acting like “homeless policy czars,” usurping what local governments should decide. Justice Brett Kavanaugh echoed that, warning against having “federal courts micromanaging” homeless policy.”