Libertatem

Highway Eighty-Eight wrote:

He speaks.

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Miri Islands wrote:

In other news water is wet

"Taxation isn't theft"
~ Literally the most retarded person ever

People have already said it, but no way in hell, or on gods green earth, a condemnation of TRF would pass.

New Tampa wrote:

People have already said it, but no way in hell, or on gods green earth, a condemnation of TRF would pass.

TRF is a name I haven’t heard in a long time, jeez.

Pevvania wrote:

Couldn't some infrastructure projects be justified by the interstate commerce clause? And I do totally agree about a return to federalism and constitutional adherence; I am thinking with my consequentialist hat on this one.

No, because the Commerce Clause is deliberately misconstrued, misuded, and abused by those who want to destroy the federal checks and balances that constrain government from infringing upon peoples' rights both natural and civil. It stops us from doing for themselves to the point that we, the people cannot make the best financial decisions for their own livelihood in trade and commerce unless submitting utterly to that abuse and misuse by a detached political/bureaucrat class. For the last 100+ years they have consistently shown to not have any individual person's interests at heart unless that person plays their political reindeer games by greasing the appropriate financial wheel of the respective controlling interests of that dept/division/admin/bureau.

If I grow 14 acres of wheat locally to sell to a local bakery (no business of the Federal govt), it might eventually be used in foreign commerce indirectly. The bakery may sell some of their loaves (God forbid!) across state lines (none of my business) and some could even possibly end up in Canada or Mexico (the business of the bakery not my own). Therefore by their Byzantine "logic," I am engaging in international commerce and therefore must submit to their supposed "Federal" authority. This fraudulence is beyond the scope of what even the most nationalistic of the Federalists would have even dreamed of being attempted.

Misconstruction of the Constitution encourages vague and arbitrary lawlessness such as violation of rights under the color of authority, most certainly; innumerable misprisions of felony, and no fear of even committing sedition against the States and People whose Constitution they were sworn to uphold. "Administrators" are not punished regularly and swiftly for their malfeasance but are protected by such fraud and grow to harass and harangue the otherwise law abiding citizens who are capable of governing their own lives in trade and commerce with others doing same. This to the point of making up ordinances that tax and jail (again otherwise law-abiding) productive citizens and robbing them of their justly earned money and property.

The commerce clause was meant for the Federal government to regulate (means to make regular - the opposite of control and restrict) trade and commerce of the several states with the nations at large so that no one natural (and later artificial) person from any particular state engaging in commerce was denied their right to engage in trade and commerce or otherwise restricted for doing so. But hey, we get to use the freeways and bridges meant to get Federal Troops from one coast to another quickly (and every stop in between) by the gracious permission of the deep state with unconstitutionally (unlawfully, unjustly) allocated taxpayer dollars in the despotic trade-off.