If he is, you need new glasses.

If he is, you need new glasses.

Moving onwards: the big issue is that the Supreme Court will defer to precedent over the plain meaning of the Constitution. This then ends up becoming rather entrenched law, because it’s impossible to get rid of the panoply of programmes, agencies, and bureaucracies that are created in response to a Supreme Court decision that expands the power of the federal government.

Justice Thomas has indicated a willingness to enforce the Constitution and limit the power of the federal government, and let the people who made the mess sort out the rest; no other Justice, however, is willing to do that. At the most, they will enforce the limits of the feds at the periphery.

(Of course, this is when we get back to the obvious: repeal the Sixteenth Amendment and put another Amendment in place that would forbid the Feds from getting money by any means that is not directly from the States. No gas tax. No corporate tax. No value-added tax. No capital gains tax.)

Moving onwards: the big issue is that the Supreme Court will defer to precedent over the plain meaning of the Constitution. This then ends up becoming rather entrenched law, because it’s impossible to get rid of the panoply of programmes, agencies, and bureaucracies that are created in response to a Supreme Court decision that expands the power of the federal government.

Justice Thomas has indicated a willingness to enforce the Constitution and limit the power of the federal government, and let the people who made the mess sort out the rest; no other Justice, however, is willing to do that. At the most, they will enforce the limits of the feds at the periphery.

(Of course, this is when we get back to the obvious: repeal the Sixteenth Amendment and put another Amendment in place that would forbid the Feds from getting money by any means that is not directly from the States. No gas tax. No corporate tax. No value-added tax. No capital gains tax.)

This can’t go on forever.

This can’t go on forever.