Lurker, regarding local police buying their own toys, you might want to consider the following post from a related thread, particularly the last part.
”President Obama issued Executive Order 13688 in January after the 2014 riots in Ferguson, Mo., . . .”
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
What we cannot expect to hear from Obama guard dog Fx News concerning Obamas executive orders dealing with military vehicles is the following.
The states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for local police departments. And not having such power is significant for the following reason.
Regarding executive orders, ”executive orders” a term not found in the Constitution, please note the following. The Supreme Court clarified in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer that executive orders do not have the force of law unless legislatively supported by Congress - provided that such legislation is reasonably based on Congresss constitutional Article I, Section 8-llimited powers. But as previously mentioned, such powers do not include regulating local police departments.
So regardless that lawless Obama is always being scapegoated, the real problem with Obamas unpopular executive orders is the following imo. We have a corrupt, Constitution-ignoring Congress that wrongly allows lawless presidents and activist justices to unconstitutionally exercise legislative branch powers, powers that Congress does not even have with respect to local police departments..
So please bear in mind that patriots need to support Trump and Cruz with a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress.
Getting back to local police departments, they should arguably refuse to give up their federally funded military vehicles by claiming that they are recovering state / local revenues which were stolen from the states through unconstitutional federal taxes.
”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.
You misunderstood me. If the Sheriff wants these toys he can go to the taxpayers of his jurisdiction and explain the need and ask his constituents to paQy for them with a local tax levy.
No Fed money needed.
That’s the Constitutional way to do things.
L