With regard to Mark Levin's liberty amendments, and in particular his amendment dealing with taxation and balancing the annual federal budget, his amendment would make it constitutional for congress to not balance the annual budget. Having said that, our founders intended if Congress could not finance its constitutionally authorized functions from imposts, duties and miscellaneous internal excise taxes and an emergency arose, the deficiency would be met by laying and collecting an apportioned tax among the states for the amount needed. The formula being:
States’ population
---------------------------- X SUM TO BE RAISED = STATE'S CONSTITUTIONALLY AUTHORIZED FAIR SHARE
Total U.S. Population
JWK
"If the Constitution was ratified under the belief, sedulously propagated on all sides, that such protection was afforded, would it not now be a fraud upon the whole people to give a different construction to its powers?"___ Justice Story
You keep claiming Levin's amendment will do certain things that aren't conservative...yet you have failed so far to show how specifically it does that which is (according to you) not Conservative.
Now you're just getting repetitive and boring. BTW...how popular was your Progressive Liberal interpretation of taxiation in America when you proposed it at the Hannity Forum? Is that why you've had so many negative reports and been banned from other forums John? Because of your trollish ways?
We already have a Liberal here pretending to be Conservative. We don't need another.
BTW what is your take on fringe on a flag in an American courtroom? Do you think the military as it presently stands is legal?
Your insulting remarks are not appreciated, nor do they add to a productive discussion!
What I have actually claimed is, Mark Levin's ". . . amendment would make it constitutional for congress to not balance the annual budget."
The two sections of Mark’s balanced budget amendment making it constitutional for Congress to not balance the annual budget are:
SECTION 6: Congress may provide for a one-year suspension of one or more of the preceding sections in this Article by a three-fifths vote of both Houses of Congress, provided the vote is conducted by roll call and sets forth the specific excess of outlays over receipts or outlays over 17.5 percent of the Nation’s gross domestic product.
SECTION 7: The limit on the debt of the United States held by the public shall not be increased unless three-fifths of both Houses of Congress shall provide for such an increase by roll call vote.
The two above sections are essentially the same crap which Republican Swamp Creatures were promoting in the mid-1980s as being part of a balanced budget amendment, a proposal which would make it constitutional for Congress to not balance the annual budget.
Now, let us take a look at the “fair share balanced budget amendment†which actually provides a method to balance the annual budget using an apportioned tax, as our Founders intended!
The Fair Share Balanced Budget Amendment
Proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
“SECTION 1. The Sixteenth Amendment is hereby repealed and Congress is henceforth forbidden to lay ``any`` tax or burden calculated from profits, gains, interest, salaries, wages, tips, inheritances or any other lawfully realized money
NOTE: these words would return us to our Constitution’s ORIGINAL TAX PLAN as our Founders intended it to operate! And, they would remove the existing chains of income taxation which now oppresses America's free enterprise system and robs the wealth which America’s productive Citizens and business owners have created.
"SECTION 2. Congress ought not raise money by borrowing, but when the money arising from imposts duties and excise taxes are insufficient to meet the public exigencies, and Congress has raised money by borrowing during the course of a fiscal year, Congress shall then lay a direct tax among the States at the beginning of the next fiscal year for an amount sufficient to extinguish the preceding fiscal year's deficit, and apply the revenue so raised to extinguishing said deficit."
NOTE: Congress is to raise its primary revenue from imposts and duties, [taxes at our water’s edge], and may also lay miscellaneous internal excise taxes on specifically chosen articles of consumption. But if Congress borrows and spends more than is brought in from imposts, duties and miscellaneous excise taxes during the course of a fiscal year, then, and only then, is the apportioned tax to be laid to make up the deficiency.
"SECTION 3. When Congress is required to lay a direct tax in accordance with Section 1 of this Article, the Secretary of the United States Treasury shall, in a timely manner, calculate each State's apportioned share of the total sum being raised agreeably to the Census fixed in the said Constitution and then provide the various State Congressional Delegations with a bill notifying their State’s Executive and Legislature of its share of the total tax being collected, a final date by which said tax shall be paid into the United States Treasury, and interest penalties for failure to pay said tax"
NOTE: our founder’s fair share formula to extinguish a deficit may be summarized as follows:
States’ population
_________________ X SUM TO BE RAISED = STATE’S FAIR SHARE
Total U.S. Population
This formula, as intended by our founding fathers, is to insure that each State’s share of the tax is proportionately equal to its representation in Congress, i.e., representation with a proportional financial obligation, or, one man one vote and one vote one dollar!
"SECTION 4. Each State shall be free to assume and pay its quota of the direct tax into the United States Treasury by a final date set by Congress, but if any State shall refuse or neglect to pay its quota, then Congress shall send forth its officers to assess and levy such State's proportion against the real property within the State with interest thereon at the rate of ((?)) per cent per annum, and against the individual owners of the taxable property. Provision shall be made for a 15% discount for those States paying their share by ((?))of the fiscal year in which the tax is laid, and a 10% discount for States paying by the final date set by Congress, such discount being to defray the States' cost of collection."
NOTE: This section respects the Tenth Amendment and allows each state to raise its share in its own chosen way in a time period set by Congress, but also allows the federal government to enter a state and collect the tax if a State is delinquent in meeting its obligation.
"SECTION 5. This Amendment to the Constitution, if ratified by the required number of States, shall take effect no later than one year after the required number of States have approved it.
JWK
“Honest money and honest taxation, the Key to America’s future Prosperity“ ___ from “Prosperity Restored by the State Rate Tax Planâ€, no longer in print.
