Tuesday, October 08, 2013

Let's get back to the basics

Our federal government was never ever designed to become the behemoth is has become. It is broken because it has morphed over the last hundred years into the mess it is today. There was a design, a constitutional outline of the simple things government in Washington was designed to do, nothing more. That design is below.

We ended up in the situation we are in our national government because at about the turn of the last century under Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson this all began to fall apart. They began to spend money we didn't have and the Income Tax was formed. States lost their rights. And the mess we have now is the result.

Everything that is not specifically listed below as a purpose of our federal government should be resident in state government. That's the way federalism is supposed to work. The power to tax should solely be at the state level. Then states could compete with one another for commerce. That would allow for grand experimentation and innovation. It worked before and can work again. Read this:

These are the limits and express duties and responsibilities of the Federal Government.

The supreme law of the land in Art. 1, § 8 of the U.S. Constitution:
To Lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States, but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States, borrow Money on the credit of the United States, regulate commerce (trade), naturalization, bankruptcy laws, coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign Coin, fix the Standard of Weights and Measures, punishment regarding counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States, establish Post Offices and post Roads, Promote [Editorial note: "promote" does not mean fund] the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries, constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court, define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations; declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water, Raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years, provide and maintain a Navy, make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces; provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions, provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress, Exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings, make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof. **

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