The 10th Amendment

The Tea Party asserts that the Federal Government is not compliant with the 10th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution as worded and is violating the 10th Amendment limits. We urge the Congress to pare back Federal Government functions and return them to the “States and the People”.

If the Federal government had followed the 10th Amendment, its budget would be under $1 trillion a year instead of $4 trillion a year. We would not have any debt or any unfunded liabilities. There would have been no inflation. We would not have ruined our economy. The States and the People would have concocted their own versions of retirement savings and health care. Business would be providing us all the energy, goods and services we need at a lot lower prices. Jobs would be available and the poor would be a very small group. The States and the People would have figured out how to help the poor.

We want to reduce the Federal Government to a few simple functions and have them give all other responsibilities to the States and the People. We want the People to begin to work on removing all non-essential expenditures from the States, Counties and Cities. We want government out of everything that their involvement has caused to be ineffective or too expensive to tolerate. We want government to stop paying for things that are not their legal responsibility. We don’t want to wait until our economy collapses and we are forced to live in the woods. We want to return to a workable system now.

Government has a track record of damaging everything it regulates and ruining everything it funds. They know this, so they spend a fortune telling us that things are not that bad, or things are improving, or that these things are really important, or if we complain we will be despised by everyone. What happens is that we stop using these industries and their “ridership” declines. This makes these monstrosities even more expensive, because they raise their fees to off-set our lack of participation. Government has ruined education, health care, energy, insurance, banking, airlines and border security. It wants to ruin the military, food, communication, transportation, Christianity and private property. The press has ruined itself.

The government passes regulations that ruin industries. They then declare them ruined and pass more regulations to finish the job. Once they are totally ruined, the government takes them over. Government subsidizes these industries, which feels good at first, but this makes them more expensive and customers start to drop off and stop showing up. When these industries are terminal, government takes over and turns them into a government entity and continues to subsidize them, forever. So, we started this Tea Party group to begin to reverse the damage, now.

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