http://docs.google.com/View?id=d9zrjs6_12g68ptbg5
Just put the senator being elected from the states and most of the nonsense that has occurred since direct election of senators would be fixed.
Right now the states have no say at the federal level.
I seem to have missed how you would raise taxes to support a real war.
DREAM ON.
Social Security? They're in it.
Obamacare? They're in it.
If we have to live with it, they have to live with it. Watch 90% of their schemes die aborning.
I personally like this. I have always believed that the Fed’s ONLY function is war. It is up to the states to educate and feed the poor.
If welfare and health care were handled on the state and local levels they would be much more effective.
While I dont see it happening I like the idea.
As it was and as it should be.
IRS should be two part-time bureaucrats whose job is to cash 64 checks (states + territories) annually. They wouldn’t even need more than two shotguns...
Oops. I forsee emergency after emergency. Revise to say 3/4's vote of Congress to declare an emergency and sunset in one year time frame.
I suppose you think this will be legally ratified. That wasn’t a problem for the people who wanted to subjugate us with the 16th amendment.
Further the US Constitution allows for a special was powers act to fund, well war. This is how the original corporate excise tax of 1913 was created and it lawfully stopped two years later, if not extended and after the war if extensions were made. Instead, after the war, the forces of evil made it an ongoing tax, legislatively. Then extended it from corporations to individuals by further sleight of hand.
This current usurpation of the USConstitution has been ongoing for quite some time. Some of us have been trying to say that to whoever would listen; myself for almost 40 years!
It matters not what laws we pass, what the constitution says, if evil contorts the meanings of what has already been written.
IOW, you want to go back to the failed approach defined by the Articles of Confederation.
No exceptions should be allowed. If there is a catastrophe or 'strain', then the state tax revenues will go down and the fed revenues also. Having Detroit in Michigan is a perpetual 'strain' on the State of Michigan, or a perpetual catastrophe, as you chose. But stupidity or cupidity should not allow escape from taxes. Government charity turns into entitlements, whether it's by handouts or tax abatement. Keep the taxes low, and let the private sector handle charity.
This proposal also needs to include a firm limit on the amount or the rate that government can confiscate. That was a major flaw in the 16th Amendment. We'd be in a lot better shape now if the income tax had been limited to original 3% top rate.
Probably too late, but the dollar should be re-valued 1 for 10 or 1 for ? Then all coinage sdould be gold, silver or copper and possibly nickel. Won’t be painless but if 2-3 other nations do something like this first the U.S. will be in a pickle,,,this would devistate the dollar and the ecconmy. We can’t afford to be also-ran in this area. Think about it.
No damn way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Being a creature of the states and by extension, the people, the Federal government may not require the expenditure of any funds by any state, sub-entity of a state, person, or corporation at any time or for any purpose except that it provide the funds for expenditure.
This would completely end unfunded mandates.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)