Back to where issues like abortion, relgion, health care, gay marriage, education and other social issues are state issues.
The Federal Government should go back to small issues like it was inteded. Like building fences to secure out boarder.
Government Health care allways sucks on large scale but works relatively well on micro states. Local governments can decide and implament what the people want. If people do not like it they can move.
This is how the founders intended it. Not this crazy stuff centralized over reaching federal Government.
2007-09-26 18:38:17 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
If you shrink the government you shrink the taxes you pay.
2007-09-26 18:48:44 · update #1
Wow! Talk about hitting a brick wall at speed. Just a few of the monumental ramifications ...
Immediately tens of thousands of bureaucrats would be standing in the unemployment line. And who would hire these unskilled laborers?
The government we know today would be impotent. It would not be able to educate our children which means the collective IQ level of this country would skyrocket by some 50%.
The government would no longer be able to occupy sovereign countries under the guise of spreading democracy. The Defense Department would be charged solely with DEFENDING this country from foreign agressors.
Gold and silver would again become our lawful money of exchange instead of the worthless debt instruments called Federal Reserve Notes we've been forced to use since 1933.
That means we'd send the Fed packing. That means there would be no need for the IRS or income taxes since every penny of our income taxes goes to pay only the interest on the ever increasing debt owed to these private bankers.
That means this nation would once again become the most prosperous nation on earth.
And ... the Common Law would be reinstituted and our current system of Maritime/Commercial Law would be, well, outlawed.
Sadly, none of this will ever happen because we've become too stupid and lazy to make it happen.
2007-09-27 03:54:56 · answer #1 · answered by High Flyer 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't think Hamilton and John Marshall were real big small government folks. I would refer you to the First and Second Banks of the United States.
I would also refer you to Reconstruction when the states failed.
The division between the States and the Federal government was based in large part on having Senators elected by state legislatures and having Presidential Electors appointed by state legislatures. You change those two things, the national government will be more powerful and less likely to defer to states on key issues.
Regardless of what the Founders intended in 1789, later generations have amended the Constitution (and gone through loopholes in the original text) to change the distribution of power.
2007-09-27 01:50:29 · answer #2 · answered by Tmess2 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, we need to go back to the Constitution. We sometimes forget that the Constitution was designed to limit the power of the federal government and prevent oppression. The state's are suppose to be sovereign. Therefore, things that you mentioned should be left up to each individual state. Let the local community that resides within that state decide what is best for them. We don't need the federal government in Washington, who has no clue about what's going on anyway, messing with business that could be easily left up to the states. And if we read the Tenth Amendment it pretty much says the same thing. That and we might actually decrease governmental spending by getting rid of the bureaucratic departments that we don't need, thus reducing taxes due to the fact that our tax money won't be going to fund these departments.
2007-09-27 01:55:44 · answer #3 · answered by j 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The states have lost a lot of their rights. When they ratified the constitution is was spelled out that the Feds would have very little power besides that of defending the union against foreign invaders. The states have sold out to get Federal dollars. Example: drinking age 21 or no Fed dollars for highways. I'd have told the Feds to hit the road.
2007-09-27 01:46:28 · answer #4 · answered by scarlettt_ohara 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, there is no such thing as a minutely involved government, where the citizens have to pay a lot of taxes.....No I think The Government is just fine, besides one of your own is expanding government more than anything, clinton reduced it
2007-09-27 01:43:54 · answer #5 · answered by devdev142 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
no
2007-09-27 01:44:36 · answer #6 · answered by spider 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋