A little good news on the restoration of rights...
Posted by MinorLiberator 9 years, 6 months ago to Politics
One step at a time. To me this is excellent news, and also evidence that there is another pathway to restoring our rights besides depending on changes in Washington DC (although a combination would be better).
Hopefully other states will follow similar legislation (I hear that some already have plans), and at the same time spend less time, effort, money and political capital on foolish and futile efforts to ban gay marriage and impose other strictly religious values via force.
I'm still dumbfounded, since I first heard of it, that asset seizure could take place without a person being found guilty of anything, and it takes a whole lot to dumbfound me about anything having to do with government.
The other areas I hope and believe the States will keep pressing forward on are opposition to Obamacare, Common Core, and labor unions, in particular teachers ans SEIU.
It happened a while ago, but I was (pleasantly) dumbfound when my home State of Michigan became a right-to-work State, it being one of the, if not the, birthplaces of violent unionism.
Hope (and not Obama-like hope) springs eternal...
Hopefully other states will follow similar legislation (I hear that some already have plans), and at the same time spend less time, effort, money and political capital on foolish and futile efforts to ban gay marriage and impose other strictly religious values via force.
I'm still dumbfounded, since I first heard of it, that asset seizure could take place without a person being found guilty of anything, and it takes a whole lot to dumbfound me about anything having to do with government.
The other areas I hope and believe the States will keep pressing forward on are opposition to Obamacare, Common Core, and labor unions, in particular teachers ans SEIU.
It happened a while ago, but I was (pleasantly) dumbfound when my home State of Michigan became a right-to-work State, it being one of the, if not the, birthplaces of violent unionism.
Hope (and not Obama-like hope) springs eternal...
How about we take away the gargantuan powers of the IRS?
As far as the IRS, absolutely up there on the list...I'm no Constitutional lawyer (and I don't play one on TV ;-) ), so I'm not sure what the States can do about them. But some duly elected, rational people in DC certainly could....
I propose a constitutional amendment taking away Congress's ability to delegate its powers. Make it read and pass every rule itself. (I'd delay the effect for one year after ratification, so Congress gets a chance to save whatever regulations are actually important before they all sunset.) Require it all to be done by roll call vote, too; no more evading accountability.
We could use that ability that in D.C.
The bad news here is that it apparently took an extra effort, a parade o phone calls to a governor in order to get her to sign something that should have been utterly automatic. We are still not electing sensible people to senior positions in government.