AntiNeoFascist
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11 years ago @ Ludwig von Mises Insti... - Thomas J. DiLorenzo ::... · 0 replies · +2 points
Any chance this article could be revised and updated to address the California transformation to an "open market"?
14 years ago @ Tenth Amendment Center - What is a Right? · 0 replies · +1 points
We respect the US founders for their huge leap in the concept of government. For the first time, government was seen as being a necessary evil and the Constitution was a document which, instead of listing all the things people had to do, or could not do, it explicitly stated the powers of the government and (more importantly) the restrictions on its power.
This limitation of power and the freedom it gave to the people created the environment in which the progress beyond "wooden teeth, candle-light, leeches and slavery" was made.
We "rugged individualists" don't want a free ride where we don't have to pay for anything. We understand and expect to have to pay for the things that we get. However, we also want government to stay out of our way and stop taking the fruits of our labor for their pet projects.
It's not the "yellowed copy of the Constitution" that we regard so highly. It's the liberty it enshrines. And that liberty is as important, if not more so, today as it was in 1790.
14 years ago @ Tenth Amendment Center - What is a Right? · 0 replies · +1 points
As far as the jury, it was setup to be the determiner of unlawful action so that people couldn't be judged by representatives of the government itself.
14 years ago @ Tenth Amendment Center - What is a Right? · 0 replies · +1 points
I've said for a long time, making more regulations about lobbying won't do reduce the practice. Only by eliminating the power to grant the favors that those lobbyists are seeking will get rid of them.
To me, the first baby steps in that direction is to increase the transparency of government. Passing bills that make Congress:
- vote on one topic at a time
- read the bills they vote to enact (signed affidavit)
- write all criminally punishable laws (no more incriminating regulations by FCC, FDA, FAA, FTC, SEC, etc, etc)
- post the final version of the bills longer (28 days for non-emergencies, 7 days for emergencies)
- name the clause in the Constitution which grants Congress the authority to do whatever they are trying to pass
I believe that by pushing these simple transparency policies, we can begin to reassert the authority of the Constitution and reclaim the federalism of the Federal government.
14 years ago @ Tenth Amendment Center - What is a Right? · 0 replies · +1 points