The menace of an increasingly militarized set of federal agencies, from the IRS to Social Security, HHS, and everything in between - in essence a de facto standing army, vested with the power to completely disregard the Constitution - cannot be overstated, nor can its danger be ignored.
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The IRS is expected to hire approximately 87,000 new agents. Supporters of the expansion say the IRS will use the enhanced enforcement capacity to target only “the rich.” However, it is not necessary to massively increase the IRS’s enforcement capacity just to go after “rich tax cheats.”
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Plenty of people are outraged with the FBI and the DOJ, but violations of the constitution are nothing new from these people. They’ve been harassing and abusing millions of people for decades - attacking liberty and ignoring the Constitution. Here are the top-5 ways they’ve done so.
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We've gone from presidents having full control of the executive branch to virtually no control. And the progressives love it. Why? Because it blocks any outsider from draining the swamp.
The post Bring back the spoils! first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.A federal agency created under the Dodd-Frank Act unconstitutionally gets to determine its own budget. In 2010 the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was passed and signed into law. In our copy, the act has 833 pages. Portions starting on page 573 through almost create the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (BCFP).…
A proposal to expand federal regulation of electric power rates is largely unconstitutional. On Sept. 28, 2017, the U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz proposed new rulemaking to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Under the authority granted the secretary under the Department of Energy Organization Act, RM18-1-000, he proposes that the FERC should use…
An open letter to Pres. Trump The bureaucracy is out of control enlarging itself at every turn. Every political science Intro to Government text has a chapter addressing this problem convincingly showing why the government is unable to stop or even significantly slow this expansion and Ronald Reagan was the only president before you that…
An open letter to Pres. Trump The bureaucracy is out of control enlarging itself at every turn. Every political science Intro to Government text has a chapter addressing this problem convincingly showing why the government is unable to stop or even significantly slow this expansion and Ronald Reagan was the only president before you that…
After correctly stating in 2012 that the Department of Energy should be abolished, political scam-artist Rick Perry did the expected today. Now that he’ll be running it, of course he thinks it’s “vital.” From the Washington Post: “My past statements made over five years ago about abolishing the Department of Energy do not reflect my…
Much of the mainstream media is whipping itself into a hyperbolic frenzy about race and Donald Trump’s Attorney General pick. For us, however, the greatest concern is how Jeff Sessions views federal power under the Constitution. Marijuana provides a really good barometer on how someone views the proper role of the federal government vs the states…