Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Senate Gang O Six Plan to Increase Taxes

Senate group offers $3.75 trillion deficit cuts; Reuters

Toward the bottom of the article:

The Senate group's hope has been that if the three conservative Republican members embrace revenue increases, the idea could catch fire among other Republicans in the Senate and House -- especially if popular but expensive entitlement programs such as Medicare also shoulder some cuts.

Comment: Wake up folks, time to repeal the 17th Amendment.

6 comments:

Kevin said...

Could you explain how repealing the 17th Amendment would affect the corruption and ridiculous power of those in the Senate?

Dan said...

It doesn't. It simply gives the state governments representation in Washington, alongside our representatives in the House.

Kevin said...

Right, but every post here seems to imply that giving the state governments representation would somehow reduce corruption and other failures of government.

e.g. in this article, how does repealing the 17th Amendment affect the budget or entitlement programs?

Dan said...

If the program is a financial or other detriment to the majority of the state governments, it won't pass. Real ID and NCLB, for example - many states cannot afford these programs, and are either financially struggling or (illegally) refusing to implement them.

Also recall your history classes, while all those "compromises" prior to the Civil War were so important. It was the Senate they were concerned about - to avoid federal legislation of a sensitive issue, free states and slave states had to be evenly split.

draedl said...

What is this bullshit? It appears to be a bunch of cranks who know nothing about either the Constitution, the way the government works, or U.S. History ... I wouldn't even bother, but I keep seeing this crap coming up in various discussion groups ... It makes absolutely no sense at all ...

Dan said...

Draedl, what do you mean?