I bet you thought this was either going to be a conservative or a liberal-based article, well it’s both. So in 2016, you may have been happy or disgusted with the result of the election. So half of the country was elated and the other half went off the rails. Each time the opposing side wins the Whitehouse that group loses their mind in whatever way they choose to display.
Another result of elections is that the two groups then head into the “not my President” and the “we need to secede” camps. The solution is some simple civics
First the 10th Amendment, https://uselesscitizens.com/?page_id=308
Text:
AMENDMENT X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
So what does this mean? So we look to Article 1 Section 8 which contains the “18 enumerated powers”. These are the 18 things the Federal Government is allowed/required to do.
United States Constitution
Article 1 Section 8
1 – The Congress shall have the power 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;
2 – To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
3 – To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;
4 – To establish a uniform rule of naturalization and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;
5 – To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;
6 – To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;
7 – To establish post offices and post roads;
8 – To promote 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;
9 – To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;
10 – To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;
11 – To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;
12 – To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer-term than two years;
13 – To provide and maintain a navy;
14 – To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;
15 – To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions;
16 – To 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;
17 – To 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, dockyards, and other needful buildings;”And
18 – To 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.
So you can see in item 1, the Federal government can set and collect taxes, BUT what you don’t see and what is being done is that based on your income you pay a different rate than someone who makes more or less. Yet you can clearly see that the Constitution clearly states “uniform throughout the United States”
Item 3 is about tariffs and taxes on imports and exports.
Item 4 is about the immigration of foreigners and filing bankruptcy within the Union.
You are welcome to go to https://constitution.congress.gov/ and do your own research.
So what don’t you see, well pretty much and “Department of _____” Education, Energy, Agriculture, Forest Service Click here https://duckduckgo.com/?q=United+States+Deptment+of+&t=ffsb&ia=web
Take Education, why are the decisions for our kids by a bunch of people who do not live near you, know what is going on in your town? Did you know that their kids all go to private schools? How good are your schools? If we end the Federal Department of Education, you would reduce taxes and even if you didn’t it would be focused in your state, town or county. You know what your children needs are, not some elected official some distance way.
The goal of these 2 pieces of the Constitution is quite simple. Keep the Federal Government small and focused and keep your tax dollars local to have a better, schools, roads, business opportunities etc.
Right now you money mostly goes to the Federal Government and then our Representatives go and try to convince to bring that money back to your states in hopes of delivering on a promise. If they don’t or can’t bring any money back, guess what you are funding things in other states. Again why should your money fund things in states and not where you live?
So think about this, take your political position and apply the ability to have more control and say-so where you live by ? If you want #recycling, #bikelanes, #abortion, #charter schools, #emission regulations, #clean streets, #better parks, #more parks, #marijuana legalization, #gay marriage.
Keep the Federal Government out of your decisions the easy example, California does what it wants, Texas does what it wants. Who wants 50 identical states? How boring.
