Posted on 03/16/2012 1:00:59 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
That may have been the case on their original admission in 1845, but on readmission after The Late Unpleasantness I'm pretty sure no such clause was extant.
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Texas COULD set up an account and intercept all earmarked federal funds in escrow for review.. from all Texas companies and individuals..
No doubt Texas sends far more funds to D.C. than D.C. sends to them..
Don’t worry, Texas is as statist as the rest. They will cave quickly, as with the TSA banning fiasco.
Womens health care is typically PC code for abortion so get rid of the abortion and there isn’t much else left to fund. Besides, I’m tired of all this BS “womens” programs that are being funded, where’s the men’s health programs or the transgendered health program or the land whale health program or the health program for rednecks? Most all “women” based program are simply back door funding for liberal man hating dikes and the Democratic party that they support so just kill the funding and we’ll all be a lot better off.
And then use the funds to pay for legal fees when the dictator in chief tries to sue them for exercising their sovereign rights under the Constitution.
At least we get another chance to point out that when the Federal gubmint "gives" you anything, they think they own you. And here I thought it was illegal to buy slaves...
Fine — then there is much less Federal control. All states should try to get defunded.
That is right. States need to ban Federal tax withholding so that they can appropriate tax money themselves. Let the showdown begin.
Leni
States are being held hostage by a federal government that has corrupted the concept of federalism and the importance of the 10th Amendment. Taxes of every kind pass through Washington DC ^FIRST^ and government rules are used to re-distribute them.
Consider that your property taxes (that are said to fund local education) are collected and passed to the federal government for distribution according to the USDoEd rules.
Think about that.
Start a tax deductible organization which does the work for the agency, send the state money to it, and then start some very public fundraisers for the private sector to replace the federal money . Have a telethon during the trials of Planned Parenthood for Medicare fraud and the indecency trial of the CEO. Have marathons, bicycle races. Do a “Hands Across Texas.” All publicity is good when you’re saving women from the Federal Government.
I haven't looked at what was said when Texas was "readmitted," but I once saw a doctoral study of various proposals to divide Texas into five states, and they went on long after 1865.
If secession were illegal then technically no state seceded. And no state may form another state within it’s own boundaries. Using this reasoning the entire state of West Virginia is illegal and Virginia would be within the law to take it back. Does that sound correct?
Time to start de-funding the feds - Texas shuld stop sending all funds to the idiots in Washington!
As a Virginia native I see maps of Virginia before 1861 and think "that's what Virginia should look like," but they were probably better off without the western counties.
Besides, it would have been hard for John Denver to squeeze "almost heaven, western Virginia," into a line of that song.
The only way we are going to get any of our state rights back is by confronting the federal government, and letting them know they can't push the states around unless they want to do it by force. We have to take a risk to ever get back to what our Constitution. This isn't the 1860’s, and the federal government wouldn't be as willing to escalate something like this to using force. They also couldn't be sure if any order to use force would be obeyed. The unconstitutional ATF would be happy to kill American citizens though.
My point is these are different times, and we aren't going to get back the rights our constitution gives us unless we are willing to confront the federal government, and resisting if they did escalate it to civil war. I don't think they would do that, but you have to be ready to go all the way if you start to let it be known it will come at a cost. I don't think they would dare do that, but if they did and it cost lives it would immediately wake people up. States and individuals can't spend endless amounts of money in courts trying to get laws that are obviously constitutional on the books.
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