Bfgrn
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Gee, maybe we could bring back the Articles of Confederation to replace the Constitution and Bill of Rights too!
I realize that anything short of a centralized fascist state is considered by people like you to be anarchy.
The nation was founded on the premise of a limited government and Federalism.
Do you mock those goals as well?
How does your vision of 'limited government' differ from anarchy?
"Federalism" replaced the Articles of Confederation.
You right wing turds always fall back on this same mindless bullshit.
Let's deal with FACTS...
I am still awaiting a response. What does limited government mean to you and is it still important today?
Progs amended the Constitution at the turn of the 20th century. Why did they amend it? It was because SCOTUS struck down federal income tax laws at the turn of the 20th century, so they had to add it, among other provisions. On top of that, they created the Fed, which is essentially a centralized bank that a whole list of Founding Fathers warned us against.
Once empowered with all that money and power, they did nothing to curtail spending and now we are seeing the results. Now states do the bidding of the federal government or loose all those federal dollars that they have become dependent upon.
Federalism is dead. The Feds run things now.
And within the federal government, the Executive branch keeps getting more powerful. Now there are a whole army of unelected bureaucrats passing regulations that amount to laws being passed without the Legislative branch. Obama passes Executive Orders to protect illegal immigrants who by the laws on the books should be deported etc.. Now states are being sued by the Federal government for trying to execute federal immigration laws on the books that Obama refuses to uphold.
I have no desire to vote for a tyrant, no matter if it comes from the royal Bush or Clinton family line.
Yea, let's go back to raising revenue through taxes of goods so taxes fall heavily on working Americans, who spent a much higher percentage of their income on goods than rich people. No better way for you right wingers to create your beloved plutocracy.
And what could be more fun than a bank run...
Create a plutocracy?
We live in a plutocracy.
And as Einstein aptly pointed out, insanity is simply trying to do the same thing over and over again in hopes of a different result.
So being such a supporter of democracy as you say you are, how can the US continually have a governing body in Congress with only around a 10% approval rating? Is this even democracy?
Congress should not have that much power to abuse. This is the consequence.
Yes, we have become a plutocracy...AGAIN...after progressives and New Deal Democrats created a more democratic republic and ended the reign of the Robber Barons...
It was the great American socialist Ronald Reagan who ended 'tax and spend' and replaced it with 'borrow and spend'