Our first
priority should be to return manufacturing, mining and oil and gas jobs to the
US. We need to lower the corporate tax
rate to 15% and use tariffs, import taxes and fees to level the playing
field. We need to remove economy-
killing unnecessary regulations and end excessive immigration. This is the “low hanging fruit”. As the economy expands, welfare will be
replaced with jobs and tax revenues will increase. We need to end big government and expand the
private economy or we’re screwed.
The US
Federal government began its march to total corruption when it determined that
the end justified the means. The
corruption began with ignoring the contradiction between the Bill of Rights
declaration that “all men are created equal” contradicted by the continuation
of slavery. They should have established a timeline to convert the slave
economy to a wage economy from the start.
The next
violation was when it ignored states’ rights to secede from the Union as the
Confederate States did beginning in 1860s. The Federalist vs. Anti-Federalist
debate still needs to be decided by an Amendment ratification by the States.
The next
violation was when it created Yellowstone National park in 1872, despite US
Constitution restricted federal government land ownership to the minimum
necessary to function. Federal lands
amount to 30% of the US landmass and need to be returned to the States they
were unconstitutionally taken from. The
also needs to be resolved through the Amendment process
The next
violation was the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913 to replace our market
economy with a “managed economy” and the creation of the inheritance tax
designed to weaken families and strengthen government. There have been many more violations since
1913.
Congress
should be given the choice to either dissolve unconstitutional departments,
agencies and programs, or submit Amendments to the States to bring these
functions into legal compliance.
We need
to remove government subsidies to restore our market economy, otherwise, we
will not be able to restore the law of supply and demand to reestablish market
pricing. Education and Healthcare costs are unsustainable and need to be
returned to market pricing in order to bring prices down.
The US
Constitution requires Congress to draft Amendments and submit them to the
States for ratification in order amend the Constitution. They didn’t do this whenever they thought the
States would not ratify what they wanted to do; they just passed an unconstitutional
law and had the President sign it. The
excuse they made was the fantasy that the Constitution was a ‘living
document’. This was a scam that opened
the federal government to doing whatever they wanted to do. It was for them the culmination of the
on-going debate between the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists. So far, the Federalists have been winning by
continuing to ignore the Constitution.
Ben Franklin and other founders warned us about this.
However,
now it clear, that the federal government has screwed up everything it has
touched and it’s time to pin back their ears.
A good start is to make them follow and enforce their own laws and use
the 10th Amendment to transfer unconstitutional functions to the
States and the People. This should
result in the elimination of the US Departments of Education, Energy, Labor,
Interior, EPA, HUD, etc.
Socialist
programs need to be removed and replaced as quickly as possible. The government
must remove itself from lending and insurance functions and allow these to
return to the private sector.
The
federal budget must be balanced as quickly as possible and the national debt
repaid as quickly as possible before interest rates can return to market
pricing.
Campaign
finance should be reformed to restrict campaign contributions to voters only;
and only for candidates who will appear on their ballot. This would end special interest contributions
and would end the current practice of ignoring the voters. We can’t take our country back if elected officials
don’t work for us. Special interests can
exercise their free speech rights on their own websites. If we don’t do this,
nothing will change.
Regulations
need to be pared back to reduce costs, remove protectionism for monopoly corporations
and government and allow open competition within the US.
We need
to do whatever is required to reestablish our Republic.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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