With all due respect to the family and supporters of the late President Reagan, and I was one of them, while Reagan was a conservative he wasn’t necessarily aware that a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified the following about Congress’s power to appropriate taxes.
The Court had clarified that Congress is prohibited from appropriating taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue that Congress cannot justify under its 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.
Patriots not only need to get Trump and his advisors up to speed on Congress’s limited power to appropriate taxes, but they also need to amend that excerpt to the Constitution.
From a related thread …
In fact, based on the Courts statement above, here is a rough approximation of how much taxpayers should be paying Congress annually to perform its Section 8-limited power duties.
Given that the plurality of clauses in Section 8 deal with defense, and given that the Department of Defense budget for 2015 was $500+ billion, I will generously round up the $500+ billion figure to $1 trillion (but probably much less) as the annual price tag of the federal government to the taxpayers.
In other words, the corrupt media, including Obama guard dog Fx Noise, should not be reporting multi-trillion dollar annual federal budgets without mentioning the Supreme Court’s clarification of Congresss limited power to appropriate taxes in budget discussions.
Remember in November !
When patriots elect Trump, they need to also elect a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its Section 8-limited powers to Trump’s vision as an expert business person to make America great again, but also put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes, such taxes arguably stolen state revenues.
Also consider that such a Congress would probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
Not a problem at all. Thank you for your considerate message.