Let’s Enforce The 10th Amendment

Let me ask you to read the United States constitution, AND the Bill of Rights, the first 10 amendments to the Constitution. And when you get to the 10th amendment study it carefully. That 10th amendment says this: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

The power to tax we-the-people is the most powerful of the domestic powers government has at any level – federal, state or local – followed immediately by the power to spend that money. Does it not seem odd to anybody in government that we are watching the federal government try to figure out how to spend $1.2-trillion guaranteed by the taxing power of the federal government, while the Georgia State legislature is trying to slash state spending … while small businesses cannot get loans … while we-the-people are losing jobs and losing the value of our savings and retirement accounts.

The answer from Washington says to us: “Oh, but the courts have ruled that the federal government can do these things.” So, at the Georgia legislature taxes are being levied for health care because the federal government mandates it, and state road construction and repair is being cut back in Georgia, while the feds say they will spend huge amounts of money on roads and bridges to fire up the economy. Isn’t it time we-the-people ask our state government to take the federal government to court for a new look at the 10th amendment.

This is Gordon Sawyer from a window on historic Green Street in Gainesville, GA.