I agree. I've gone so far as to describe myself as a constitutional libertarian. I felt the need to clarify when the open boarders crowd started trying to discredit the idea of deregulation by insisting that securing the country against illegal entry was nothing short of federal overreach. I think it also helps separate me from what I think are called anarcho-libertariens who, in my opinion, are just communists in disguise tackling the "shred the constitution" premise from another angle.
I can see the want to distinguish by prefacing with constitutional but there's amendments to that have enshrined overreach. Income taxes being a glaring example. In the end though, they are all labels that people like to stick on others so they can easily package them up into an easy to handle thought. "I think this and I am this so if you don't think this then you must be that."
The sixteenth & seventeenth amendments should be repealed. At a minimum. I don't typically start there on political conversations. Because it can be laborsom to explain to someone looking for cheep points (obviously not referring to you here) that federal taxation is not only wrong but unnecessary & that senators are meant to be representatives of the several states not popularly elected.
Given that. I still pay my taxes and vote for a senator because they're are mechanisms to change these things & I happen to believe that those processes work & are important.
I usually start with taxes and steam roll right into states rights. It's pretty sad that a large majority of people believe that what we have now is what was given to us with the creation of the country. Weren't paying attention in classes or just were never taught. Yes Karen, the founding fathers created the FDA because they had nothing better to do.
Agreed. They are important and do work most of the time but we've been on a path that shows they are working less and less.
I will say though, as bad as things are now, I'm not wanting to see a constitutional convention get called.
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