Amendments
Posted By Russ Emerson on December 8, 2003 at 6:08 pm
Citizen Smash’s open thread today asks the question:
If you could add one amendment to the US Constitution, what would it be?
Well, I couldn’t limit myself to one… and I’ll bet I could come up with more:
“The sixteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.”
No income tax. Congress would have to come up with some other scheme to raise the money they use to buy votes fund programs.
“No person who receives a paycheck or largess from the federal government, or the same from a non-governmental entity funded 50% or more by the federal government, shall be entitled to vote in elections for federal offices.”
Ya, that’ll make a lot of people unhappy… people from all over the political spectrum.
[Update: yes, the second was meant to be tongue in cheek, but I suffer from the handicap of already knowing what I mean to say and how I mean to say it. Thanks, Charles, for pointing this out.]