“I think that if I asked Oxford-indoctrinated Hilton why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I that I’d get a blank look.”
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And you would probably get that from a lot of people,like me. I had to look it up.
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Note that previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court justices had clarified that Congress cannot make laws, including tax laws, that it cannot justify under its 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.
”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 smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most appropriations laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." —me
Also note that the Founding States had established the Senate partly to kill House bills that not only steal state powers, but also state revenues uniquely associated with those powers, such revenues stolen by means of unconstitutional federal taxes according to the Gibbons v. Ogden excerpt above.
The problem is that the state legislatures later foolishly ratified the ill-conceived 17th Amendment (17A), unthinkingly giving up the voices of the state legislatures in Congress by doing so.
As a consequence of 17A, low-information voters elect senators who not only evidently don’t know the fed’s Section 8-limited powers any better than the voters do, but who also work in cahoots with the likewise corrupt House to pass bills that steal state powers and revenues.
The Senate then protects Congress's mischief by confirming state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices who declare Congress’s unconstitutional laws to be constitutional.
Are we having fun yet?
What a mess! 8^P
This is why patriots not only need to give Pres. Trump a new Trump-supporting, state sovereignty-respecting Congress in the 2018 midterm elections, but patriots also need to support Trump in leading the states to repeal the 16th & 17th Amendments.
you beat me to the exact same statement.