Posted on 01/27/2024 11:21:31 AM PST by Jacquerie
TX asserted its sovereignty! Twenty-five states in support. Keep up the momentum. Support an Article V COS!
The concept of Judicial Review needs to be revisited. The courts need to be put in their rightful place. John Marshall be damned.
When one reads the Bible, one will find that when the Jewish people were ruled by judges that it was a curse and they cried out for a king to save them from the vanity and avarice of their magistrate dictators.
Judges have their place. But it is not their place to make law, to issue edicts, to contravene the Constitution, to contravene the rights of free men, or to set themselves above our elected leaders.
Congress has failed us over the years by not asserting their exclusive power to legislate. It’s all about $$$ to them.
Going with Art. 5 could be a trap. Like the GOP put abortion on ballot and the left came in from all over the world with big bucks and won. The GOP did almost nothing to defwns pro-life. As a result Red State Ohio has embedded in its amended Constitution a prohibition against passing any law on abortion - anything goes! Worst in the country!
If an Art. 5 Convention of States really occurred we would likely lose the entire Bill of Rights and the Electorial College... for starters.
Fine. Believe if you wish that our Framers inserted a hand grenade into their Constitution.
Pretend 2020 and 2022 didn’t happen.
Just keep voting. Pretend it matters.
Is that daylight i see at the far end of this nightmarish tunnel?
Very good point.
Thank the 17th Amendment.
The same totalitarians who have corrupted our Constitution will triple-down on its’ destruction if any sort of Article 5 convention is invoked.
Rodney Dodsworth and his acolyte must be “consigned to the dustbin of history”.
The preventative to a possible rogue convention is named delegates in the enabling acts.
Texas could trust Ken Paxton.
Exactly.
The states will appoint delegates with defined authority and no more.
I don’t lose sleep or get upset when women who would murder their baby murder their baby.
You would cast our Framers into the dustbin of history?
Per the post, what are the practical limits on Scotus?
The Republicans in Congress should try to send to the states a constitutional amendment that would cap middle class property taxation, such as:
Property tax on any residential property of less than 2799 square feet of finished space shall be no higher the 2019 dollar amount on the property, or for a newer or since resold property what a similar property in the same area would have been taxed at for 2019 if it lacked owner specific tax breaks, increased by 3% per calendar year since 2019 and by any percentage increase to its finished space.
Fighting for such a property tax cap would add the electors of several deep blue states to Trump’s total and make Congress turn deep red.
Even multi-election Democratic voters do not want to get taxed out of their homes.
How would schools get funded if property taxes are capped to 2019 scale levels?
By higher sales taxation and by services taxation that is used in Florida in lieu of having a state income tax.
I don’t want to pay for schooling of the kids of the people pampering the well-to-do. The well-to-do need to pay for such schooling via service taxation.
Well-to-do often send their children to expensive private schools. They pay taxes and tuition after giving lip service to equity.
The Republicans in Congress should try to send to the states a constitutional amendment that would cap middle class income taxation along the lines of:
Federal income taxation of people with incomes within the range of 90% of the full-time federal civilian workforce [i.e. the middle class by income] shall not be at greater percentage rate burdens than in 2023.
What about if there is a war? Federal civilian salaries can be compressed downward as may be needed so the upper middle class becomes no longer capped.
Joe Biden has said he doesn’t want to raise taxes on (two) people making under $400,000.
“expensive private schools”
Groups having about 20 kids in a school should try to hire two full-time tutors instead.
That would cost maybe $200,000/year total split 20 ways.
I grew up in an era when eating at restaurants was not a usual practice and yardwork and painting was done by household members.
My Democratic neighbor still cleans her own house even after her daughters raved about having Hispanics clean theirs.
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