Roland Kayser wrote:

Orator wrote:

gopherus wrote:

Orator wrote:

Since when is it the fed's job to concern itself with our nutrition. Screw them, that is not a right granted them in the constitution, whether you like it or not.


Perhaps not. However they are in the best position to achieve basic standards for food safety and nutrition (minimum standards for school meals). I would not suggest that these be anything but minimum standards, but the existence of the FDA and USDA gives them the resources to institute basic standards (which I think we all know we could use based on the existence of the child obesity epidemic). I would suggest that we could make federalism work better if we tried. It is not that the Constitution is not a good framework, but it did give us the potential to build on it. I feel no need to live in the shadow of the founding fathers. We have different challenges and can adapt the framework they gave us do deal with those challenges.


One of the things that they understoof perfectly and which needs no adaption is that we must have limited government to preserve our freedom. They understood that when you we give the feds the opportunity to broaden their scope they will take away all our freedoms. No, the constitution does not need to be adapted, we need to adapt the constitution which we have failed miserably at.

There is nothing on the political front that tells me we need a change of the constitution or the introduction of as new amendment. What we need to do is repeal the 14th amendment to reduce the ability of the feds to tax us.

How does the fourteenth amendment increase taxes? It states that all citizens are entitled to due process and the rights of citizenship can not be denied or abridged by the states for any group. It was passed after the civil war to prevent states from discriminating against the freed slaves. Of course, it went unenforced for almost a hundred years until the civil rights movement, but I don't see how repealing it would lower our taxes.



I guess that repealing it would allow families who lost slaves to sue the government for compensation, but that isn't really a lowering of taxes. Did your family own slaves Orator? Are you after compensation for the loss of your slaves?
Perhaps taxes would be lower if blacks couldn't vote, they do tend to vote for Democrats. We all know that Republicans lower taxes (building up debt so that when people kick them out of office the Democrats are forced to raise taxes).