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Tenth Amendment and Resolutions


Mike Rothfeld (Grassroots activist trainer) provided his take on Tenth Amendment resolutions. Basically, he stated that:

1. A resolution is a waste of time because it doesn't affect law or use of funds.
2. A resolution can actually be dangerous because it allows politicians to sign something that doesn't affect law, b… Continue

http://timnerenz.com/content/bailing-out-bailout

A curious trend seems to be developing in the financial community; the banks are bailing out of the bank bailout plan.

Last week, JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimond told Wall Street Journal analysts that his firm would seek to give back their $25 billion in TARP bailout money: “we could pay it back tomorrow, we have the money.”

A few days earlier Goldman Sachs announced it wants to pay back its $15 billion of TARP funds. On Friday, it was CitiGro… Continue

http://timnerenz.com/content/real-message-tax-day-tea-parties

The thing about taxes isn’t just that they take too much of our money - it’s that they spend it on things we don’t believe in. They whip us with our own belts.

Today’s Tea-Party protests drew together people from across the spectrum of interests and political philosophies to protest excessive taxation. The diverse Tea Party participants were united by a comm… Continue

http://timnerenz.com/content/charitable-choice

The easiest way to get a Republican to back off on limited government is to threaten that if a single dollar is cut from the federal budget every aged and infirmed person in America will die. Libertarians don’t scare so easily.

Democrats demand that government spending be the exclusive yardstick of compassion. For too long, we have given them a pass on their claim to ownership of the car… Continue

http://timnerenz.com/content/harder-it-has-be

Libertarians don’t just complain about socialists; we offer practical solutions to the problems they create. Here a few deceptively simple ones you will hear more about in the campaign.

Social Security. Eliminate all taxes on wages at age 65. Work as long as you like and keep everything you earn, or retire - your choice. This costs absolutely nothing and there is no downside. If nobody cho… Continue