Leave things to the state, our biggest problems always come from the federal government meddling in local affairs.
Before the Dept of Education was created by Carter, we never had these types of problems.
Why would anyone want the Feds to be in solved in anything that has to do with your children's life?
I agree, thank you Schumer for accidentally getting something right, because if he knew the devastating repercussions of this bill, he would have had every democrat on board with it.
Does anyone even realize the problems created when Bush created the Dept of Homeland Security? What we need to do is start dismantling Federal agencies and limit the power of the Federal governments power and reach in our live, not increase their control by creating new bureaucracies.
Wake up people, and smell the stench we already must deal with coming from DC, and stop supporting more Fed control in our lives just because it has the initials of a Republican on the desired legislation.
LEES NOT MORE!
I agree 100%.
I'll also emphasize that, with the exception of militia training, the prudence in keeping the very corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification feds out of INTRAstate schooling is not a matter of opinion under the Constitution.
More specifically, both President Thomas Jefferson, in a State of the Union address, also Justice Joseph Story, had both indicated that the Constitution would first need to be appropriately amended in order for Congress to be able to dictate, regulate, tax and spend for intrastate schooling purposes — something that the states have never done!
"10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
“The great mass of the articles on which impost is paid is foreign luxuries, purchased by those only who are rich enough to afford themselves the use of them. Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers [emphasis added].” —Thomas Jefferson: 6th Annual Message, 1806." (Jefferson is indicating that Congress cannot tax and spend in the name of intrastate infrastructure imo.)
"The power to regulate manufactures is no more confided to congress, than the power to interfere with the systems of education, the poor laws, or the road laws of the states [emphases added]." —Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2, 1833.
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
The current problem with intrastate schools is this. Neither state government elected leaders, or school administrators, seem to understand that the so-called "federal" funding with unconstitutional requirements that they regularly beg corrupt Congress for is arguably state revenues that the feds are regularly stealing from the states by means of unconstitutional federal taxes.
More specifically, the feds steal state revenues by means of unconstitutional (imo) federal taxes, taxes that Congress cannot reasonably justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers imo.
"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.
The bottom line is that Trump's red tsunami of patriot supporters need to start working with their new, Trump-endorsed state lawmakers in 2023 to put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes.
Once unconstitutional federal taxes are stopped then the states will ultimately find a tsunami (imo) of new revenues that they can use to improve state infrastructure, including schools.
Note that Justice Louis Brandeis had volunteered his "laboratories of democracy" metaphor to emphasize the 10th Amendment-protected powers of the states to ultimately provide the kind of state social spending programs that a state's legal majority citizen voters want, most post FDR-era federal social spending programs unconstitutional imo.
"[...] a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country." —Justice Louis Brandeis, Laboratories of Democracy.
From the congressional record, a statement concerning the 14th Amendment by Rep. John Bingham, the main author of Section 1 of that amendment:
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
Again, Trump's red tsunami of patriot supporters need to start supporting their new, Trump-endorsed federal and state lawmakers in 2023 to eliminate the unconstitutional middleman, the unconstitutionally big federal government, from “helping” the states to manage their revenues.
Corrections, insights welcome.