Is States Rights position by GOP code for ?????

Question

like...."repairing roads and bridges are a states thing", or "states should decide civil rights cases", etcc...

Is this all code for something??

Answer 1

Yep. Its code for, its ok to discriminate if thats what your state wants, its ok to not fix roads and bridges if your state wants that.
Its code for the rich get richer and there is no national mandate to be fair to the rest of the people.

Most tax dollars are collected by the FEDs, but the GOP wants all that money not used for the people but to enrich the rich and the military industrial complex. Meanwhile if we want good roads and safe bridges they want states to tax us all over again for that.
Then they will complain about too many taxes. They call them cons for a good reason.

Answer 2

Yes, it is code for: "The Constitution enumerates specific powers for the Federal government. The 10th Amendment states that if a power isn't specified in the Constitution, it isn't a power of the Federal government."

There are no Articles or Clauses in the Constitution that authorizes Congress to collect taxes or disburse the peoples' monies for the purpose of building or repairing roads and bridges.

But I disagree with the "civil rights cases" thing. All Americans have inherent human rights, and Constitutionally protected civil rights. If the citizen feels the state is not protecting their rights, they must be able to petition the Federal government for protection of their rights.

Answer 3

Yeah it's code for we are supposed to be 50 individual states tied together by a small Federal government. By the way civil rights cases are often Constitutional issues that would then be decided by Federal Courts. Obviously road repair depends on the road in question.

Let me ask you this. Does it make sense that all taxpayers send tons of money to Washington and the the Federal government just sends it back, as they see fit, for use on the highways? Wouldn't it make more sense for this money to go straight to the state capitals?

Answer 4

For years the state's rights argument was code for racism. The federal government has no right telling the states that they have to integrate. While there is a legitimate debate about the role of federalism, each party seems to use the term "state's rights" to its advantage. The states do not have rights, the people do and they are failing to defend them from the encroachment by government on all levels.

Answer 5

There is a delineation between actions considered state or federal.

It's not code; it's how the founding fathers set up the government. Were you asleep in that class?

Answer 6

States' Rights have always been a reactionary's code for segragation and racism.

I don't think they're still around, but there was a State's Rights political party that was highly visible in the 50s and 60s, that ran racist candidates for President. The party was openly racist.

Answer 7

The code that the GOP lives by is lies, deceit and hypocrisy. This lot of republicans is a den of liars and thieves, and should be cast out. All will be judged according to their works. What good work has the current president done? Has he done even one good thing?

Answer 8

Yes, it's code for "allow the people who are closest to the problems and understand the problems more to fix the problems rather than let political fat cats in Washington mismanage and misappropriate even more money while never fixing anything."

Answer 9

It's code for we'll take your tax money and give it to the war machine and our corporate friends, and you can raise taxes in your own states to take care of highways, bridges, whatever.

Oh yeah, and we're taking your national guard for ourselves. You folks will have to figure out a way to help yourselves in that regard.

Basically it's code for the concept of a supreme, unaccountable federal state.

Answer 10

Yeah, its a code for less federal government involvement.