Mitch: Yeah? Well, don't be so sure. Others have tried and failed. The entire population, in fact.
Posted on 01/04/2017 3:59:19 PM PST by Olog-hai
“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 patriots support Trump in putting a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, then the following will possibly happen.
The states will probably find a tsunami of new revenues that they don’t know what to do with. And if that happens then states like NJ can quit picking on property owners.
Patriots need to support Trump in draining the unconstitutional big federal government swamp.
So are they going to New York and Connecticut?
I doubt NJ is charging exorbitant property taxes solely because of what the federal government is doing. They wanted to own just about all the public transit, plus maintain its own bloated welfare state, among other anti-American things.
Mitch: Yeah? Well, don't be so sure. Others have tried and failed. The entire population, in fact.
Naw, I wish they were all going to NY and Conn. Down here in Delaware we are getting gobs of NJ retirees with their fat public service pensions and Democrat loyalties, making our screwed up blue state even worse.
Happened in Broward.when I got there in 68 heaven. By 1999 started to suck real bad headed up to Brevard.Its getting there.
In fact, a lot of us would like to vote Philadelphia out of the Commonwealth and force them on New Jersey.
It is a pissant sized state anyway. Merge them with the part of Delaware/Maryland north of the canal. Give Delaware the Eastern Shore south of the canal. And give Pennsylvania the Maryland panhandle to compensate us for the loss of Philadelphia and a couple of the collar counties.
Back in colonial times, we actually fought a brief war with Maryland over the panhandle. It is weird shaped (only 1 mile wide at Hancock) and the people in the panhandle vote more like Pennsylvania anyway.
And while you are at it, merge Rhode Island with Connecticut! If a state doesn't have at least 7500 square miles, it doesn't deserve two senators.
In fact, a lot of us would like to vote Philadelphia out of the Commonwealth and force them on New Jersey.
It is a pissant sized state anyway. Merge them with the part of Delaware/Maryland north of the canal. Give Delaware the Eastern Shore south of the canal. And give Pennsylvania the Maryland panhandle to compensate us for the loss of Philadelphia and a couple of the collar counties.
Back in colonial times, we actually fought a brief war with Maryland over the panhandle. It is weird shaped (only 1 mile wide at Hancock) and the people in the panhandle vote more like Pennsylvania anyway.
And while you are at it, merge Rhode Island with Connecticut! If a state doesn't have at least 7500 square miles, it doesn't deserve two senators.
I lived there way back when. 1987.
Left New Jersey in 1988 for Houston, TX. Now Houston is getting to be too much like New Jersey. It is getting to be a PITA to do business here (when spending my money). I need to find a good redneck town where no Yankee would venture.
per the study that does not provide destinations, most likely North Carolina,Florida, Texas or Georgia
The I-77 toll road fiasco may very well have cost McCrory the election in NC.
As a lifelong NJ resident I absolutely agree this state sucks. I’m in a ranch house and my taxes are just south of $10K per year. I pay almost 7% sales tax on my purchases, a new gas tax, fees on everything from garbage stickers to youth driving decals for my kids. The public transportation system sucks, the roads are falling apart, bridges and tunnels a mess and the traffic is insane. All for the privilege of living here. That said, the shore is nice, the city is great, pro sports teams in every league, mountains to the north and west. But mostly, the state just sucks. Can’t wait until I retire and join the rest of the movers.
The main reason is school taxes and how the municipalities are structured here. Each town and city, about 600 of them, all maintain their own school systems, police departments, fire departments and municipal services. There are some exceptions and regional schools but for the most part everyone has their own everything. So stupid.
I was lame and got my gears switched around..!!!
TOTALLY STUPID MISTAKE..!
I even did it a second time, later on in the thread, wow..!
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Yes sir, ruining Pennsylvania. I remember sitting in a dealership waiting room and some woman kept going off about something and saying: “Well I’m from New Jersey”. I said nothing but thought plenty. That was in my more mellow days. I’m fed up at this point.
You got that right. My libtard brother moved from Nevada to Florida. Stalin, Mao, Castro and Obama are his heroes.
He would be content to live in a cage and have Obama provide all his needs.
I think that all state lawmakers, especially lawmakers in CA and NY, would be interested in knowing that the strings-attached federal funding that they are continually begging for are arguably state revenues that the corrupt feds stole by means of unconstitutional federal taxes.
In other words, much “federal” funding shouldn’t have left the states in the first place. And I think that if Trump puts a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes by the infamously wasteful federal government, then the states would not only find it easier to balance their budgets, but they could provide overall tax relief to their citizens.
Also consider that citizens could start making use of state recall laws to weed the crooks out of their state governments, something that they cannot do with their federal representatives unless the constitution is appropriately amended.
Illinois wrote the book on doubledipping.
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