The Liberty Amendment

Ugh. I'm surprised the amendment didn't say anything about "sheeple".

It'll never be ratified.

mmmmmmmm,nnnnnnahhhhhhhh.
(but it is an interesting proposal)

I can support the first three articales not the forth. We have a duty to help those less fortunate. taxes should be fairly collected the rich pay more and then a sliding scale down from that. Taxes should go to social programs such as education,housing,and health care.The cycle of poverty can be broken, but only if we provide the means by which people can lift themselves up from it by education, which should be free to all with the grades to succeed! Housing and health care are vital in this process! There should be no war unless our country is attacked directly! All americans deserve the same access to education and social services,and we need tax money to pay for it!

On taxes-the rich pay a smaller percentage than the working poor and middle class psi cop,

Sorry, there's very little I wish to do that I can't in America.

Getting married, smoking Mary Jane...not a whole lot else. Taxes are a necessary evil. I'd rather be taxed and have federal programs than not have either.

*shrugs* That said, I don't think I mind the parts that deal with the financial interventionism. I'm not totally sure if I like the government's bailouts or not: I simply don't know enough. But it seems like a huge change in a short period of time, which doesn't lend credibility to the stability of the government.

Also, this would probably stand in the way of foreign agreements which we've already signed and will want to sign in the future. So being the internationalist I am (woohoo world government!), I'm pretty against that part, too.

"Section 5: Congress shall pass no laws for or against personal drug use. Because your body is your business and not the government's."

Whoa, that's cool!

You're so right, since the larger the federal government has gotten the freer and more prosperous we have become, right? Where do you get the idea that being lorded over by an unresponsive central government is superior to making your own decisions? The larger and more intrusive the central government gets the poorer and more enslaved we become. I still have just as big a problem with FISA and The Patriot Act now as I did November, yet where is your righteous anger?

By the way, the states had control over our schools for years and we were the best educated country in the world, now we have an average of a 4th grade reading level, DOE has destroyed education in this country.

Maybe you should start thinking about it his way, you have more direct control over your local government, if you don't like the way things are done you have a good chance of changing things. With a huge central government, you lose your ability to foster the changes you'd like to see, also you lose the ability to vote with your feet. You should read the "Anti Federalist Papers" you'd get a clearer idea of what the intention of many of the founding fathers was in the beginning. The most revolutionary idea in the world was that people should have the right to live free, not a return to absolute rule of a small political elite. That form of government has been around since the beginning of time. It's regress not progress to increase the size and power of government over the people. It's a return to serfdom.

There's a tradition that says that any named bill generally has the opposite effect of the claim in it's name, Witness the patriot act. I think this is true here too as well.

Shutting down/lobotomizing the federal government is not going to make the country run better.

It's a noble idea, but the estate and income taxes are what help keep the rich paying more so the poor don't have to foot the bill.

If you take a look at the states that have "adopted" this amendment, you'll see that the serve as very dangerous examples of how State power dominates over federal power. One example is education... please tell me how this amendment will fix education in AZ? It has great ideals, but this isn't the age of idealism, it's the age of consequences and needed action, people would use this amendment as the selfishness amendment... autonomy right? It's what America can't do without, and that's what Ryan Montbleau would call "freedom fear" (just a singer in a band, but wise as hell).

Here is a list of problems that the Liberty Amendment would win the battle on all at once.

http://libertyamendment.org/45.html

Although it may need some revising, but it's a good start. ;)