WE THE (disgruntled) PEOPLE.....(3-15-08)

Returning to Constitutional Government

Many problems facing this country today can be solved by returning to the principles which guided our Founding Fathers when they drafted the constitution. This country badly needs to change the power of federal government back within the limits that were set when the constitution was enacted. Article 1, Section 8 of the constitution states the authority of Congress to: Tax, borrow, and spend; Regulate commerce, establish bankruptcy laws. Coin and regulate money, punish counterfeiting. Eestablish rules and testing for citizenship. Establish a postal system. Pass copyright and patent laws. Eestablish federal courts. Declare war;finance and regulate the armed forces;Call up state militias. Administer the seat of government; Administer federal lands. Pass laws required for the implementation of the above.
No less, and certainly no more! Seems like plenty of work for such incompetent people.
The 10th Amendment to the Constitution states, "The powers not delegated to the United States..., are reserved to the States..., or to the people".
All of government's power comes from The People. Today, the only power the people have left is their right to protect themselves, their family and their property. Even this power requires us to ask the government to assist through The courts, Military, Police, Fire Department, etc.
The U. S. Supreme Court, in 1905 ruled, "The Constitution is a written instrument and as such its meaning does not alter, that which it meant when it was adopted, it means now!" The over-regulation and over-taxation restraining our business and harming our economy will continue if we don't, at some point, elect new thinkers who can turn back the clock and undue the governments damaging overreach.
"Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest." - Calvin Coolidge The task at hand is not an easy or small undertaking. It is necessary to reduce the size of the Federal Government by abolishing or returning to the states all federal departments, agencies and programs found lacking constitutional granted authority (See Article 1, Section 8) It will also be necessary to abolish the 16TH amendment. It is, without a doubt, the worst of the amendments and counterproductive in today's competitive capitalist system. Replacing the income tax, capital gains tax,and the inheritance tax with sales or consumption tax.
Article 1, Section 9, of the US Constitution states, "No capitation, or other direct tax shall be laid,...." The income tax was imposed during reconstruction after the Civil War. However, the US Supreme Court overturned it with these words, "The income tax is indeed a direct tax and therefore unconstitutional." -Pollock v. Farmers Loan & Trust Co., (1895) The income tax was unconstitutional then and, goes against the better thinking of our founding fathers. Well, they were right..... However, in 1913 the socialist Congress forced the income tax on the people with the 16th Amendment. The income tax is not designed just to raise taxes, that could have been done with a national sales tax. Instead, its goal is to punish the successful and reward the failures of our society.
A national sales tax is indeed Constitutional. Other positive effects include; -Our privacy would be protected. Government does not need to know how much you make. -Everyone who spends money participates including the super-wealthy, foreign visitors, illegal aliens, drug dealers, and others now in the criminal underground economy. -It is a pay as you go system - no April 15th. -The IRS and all bureaucratic collection cost would be sharply reduced or eliminated. -Lower production cost will allow our businesses to better compete internationally. -Prices of good and services would come down more than enough to cover the sales tax. -Unbelievable economic strength creating new jobs. -The money now moved into off-shore tax shelters would return to this country further stimulating the economy. -Manufacturing would make a comeback without the over-taxation and over-regulation that drove them to low wage countries. -Special interest lobbyists that currently press congress for tax breaks would be jobless.
Its also going to require the real political push required to reform Social Security and slowly replacing it with Individual Retirement Accounts (IRS) which would allow workers to retire with the same income they made while working. Our current system will eventually go bankrupt. The only unanswered question is how much of your tax money will be waisted getting us out of this failed system. The longer you wait to force your elected officials to get serious, the more it will cost to make the transition.
Other seriously needed changes include; -Building and maintaining a strong military "Peace Through Strength" -Enforce laws, not Gun control. Criminals break laws and they will not change with gun laws change. Enacting gun laws will empower them while disarming all others.
"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms. . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." -Thomas Jefferson
A threat from a few will not do. A threat from many will affect plenty.
"The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to." -Thomas Jefferson Its also necessary to fight state and local government overreach. A good example is property tax, which is a state problem that must be corrected because in addition to being a hated tax, it also prevents us from ever actually owning property. If property can be confiscated for taxes unpaid, it was never truly owned. Once something is paid for, and taxes are paid for that purchase, you should never have to pay again. This is worse than double taxation, its a foreclosure by the government when your too old or too poor to keep up with the tax you have no control over. The application of a property tax for the public use is an idea of Karl Marx. "Resistance To Tyranny Is Obedience To GOD" -Thomas Jefferson