Erosion of US Constitution

The expansion of federal government overreach is unsustainable. Reaching beyond the enumerated powers granted to the federal from the States should have been stopped by the Courts. 

The Courts, in the 1870s should have insisted that Congress submit a formal Amendment to be ratified by the States to add language to allow the federal to own land beyond what it needs to operate, but they didn’t do that. In the absence of this Amendment, the “ownership” of one third of the US land mass is in question.

Additional Amendments would have been needed to allow the passage of the Federal Reserve Act and the US Income Tax in 1913 and a boat-load to allow the “new deal” expansions in the 1930s and thereafter. These infractions ushered in the government corruption we are battling today.

Each infraction resulted in failure and sovereign bankruptcy.

Allowing the Congress to vote to delegate their duty to “coin money” removed an enumerated power and deserved an Amendment.

The Federal Reserve operates outside of the laws of economics. The “market” must set the interest rates based on supply and demand, because the “market” must set the price in a free market economy. Otherwise, prices can be manipulated and this invites corruption.

Adjusting the money supply should be tied to growth in the private sector.

The Income Tax and the Death Tax killed the family as the basic unit of the US economy.

Social Security is a Ponzie Scheme that results in participants losing 2/3rds of what they could have earned by investing their own money. Again, this damages the family.

Medicare, Medicaid and all subsidies to individuals for healthcare insurance corrupt the “price” and make prices much higher than the market would have allowed. Third Party Payment schemes invite price inflation. Insurance is a “cash-flow” device and should operate more like a loan.

Public Education and all other tax subsidized schemes also invite price inflation beyond its value. It also invites corruption with propaganda replacing useful, factual learning.

The federal government should provide the rule of law and national defense.

State and local governments should maintain highways, roads, bridges, sewers, fresh water retention and clean water treatment and delivery systems. Dams and reservoirs should prevent fresh water from entering the oceans.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader