Posted on 08/15/2014 4:19:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Simple, if it isn’t part of the 18 enumerated powers of congress, then it’s gone.
Isn’t going to happen.
Define the interstate commerce clause as it should have been, and almost everything Federal goes away.
For good measure, repeal the 16th amendment and watch the states reassert their power.
The very first step is to crush the unions, without that none of the rest is possible!
RE: Define the interstate commerce clause as it should have been
Whose definition should take precedence?
Interstate commerce should be defined as the actual exchange of goods or services that crosses state lines, nothing else. Presently interstate commerce is considered anything that might influence the stream of interstate commerce, that is, everything. Thus since what a pizzeria pays its delivery drivers influences how much it can pay for the cheese it buys from another state it is considered interstate commerce. This is the basis for federal minimum wage laws and other regulations on purely local businesses.
The feral govt could be reorganized into 18 departments, and rather than naming them, they should be numbered... according to the order in the Constitution. Department 1, Department 2, and so on.
That sends the message for later that if some statist wanted to add a 19th department, he damn well better get an amendment first.
Its not like we are defining the meaning of tea leaves. The original debate and intent is quite clear. The intent was to prevent the application of tariffs to commerce between the states. In what universe does that morph into a Department of Education?
Thanks, ping for recollection.
I guess we can dream.
And let’s take the 13th Amendment for what it truly says.
“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, EXCEPT AS A FORM OF PUNISHMENT FOR CRIME whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States”
Slavery is not banned. It is merely regulated. But lawmakers are too cowardly to institute it.
I think first dibs on that goes to the author, James Madison:
“Yet it is very certain that it grew out of the abuse of the power by the importing States in taxing the nonimporting, and was intended as a negative and preventive provision against injustice among the States themselves, rather than as a power to be used for the positive purposes of the General Government, in which alone, however, the remedial power could be lodged.” – Letter to Cabell, February 13, 1829.
Good, and needed thread.
This is FYI for Governor Rick Perry, in case he’s reading this and planning to ran for POTUS again :)
Slash the CBO budget by 85%.
I doubt this gets much notice but did you know that USDA mpw underwrites loans for non-farm properties, as in houses in subdivisions, in “certain” designated rural areas? E.g. a house on a street on a lot of less than one acre in Goldsboro, North Carolina.
ZERO down.
Just wrong.
But it's so much easier to be a naysayer, isn't it? You don't have to actually do anything.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
I agree that incremental reform is not an option. The EPA needs to be wrestled to the ground and a stake driven in its heart. Then rinse and repeat for the Dept of Energy and Education just to start.
Rinos and middle of the road Republicans should investigate the libertarian agenda with an open mind. There are different flavors of libertarianism. My pick is the one that created this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfpO-WBz_mw
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