Do States Rights still exist?
What ever happened to “States Rights”? The 10th amendment to theconstitution states simply that “The Powers not delegated to the United Statesnor prohibited to the states by it are reserved to the States respectively or tothe people”.
Nowhere in this document does the constitution give the USthe power to control guns or ammunition. In fact as we all know today the 2ndamendment states that right shall not be infringed.
For that matter where does the constitution give the US theright to make seat belt laws, or tell us how to run schools and where and howto build roads?
The answer is not that complicated. In a word or two “incometaxes”. Taxes go to the US governmentand they in their great wisdom dole money out to the states (give back some ofwhat we the people pay in) but there are strings attached you see the Feds willwithhold money if the States don’t do with it as demanded. Just today I read that Indiana is going tolose $40M in federal highway funds because our drunken driving laws don’t meetfederal standards.
This is how we end up with laws or more often regulationsprohibiting the sale or consumption of raw milk etc., this is how the EPA andOSHA get by with totally ridiculous rules that any person with any common sensecan see to frugality and unreasonable cost.
Most of these laws and regulations over the years have beenpassed and justified under the “Interstate Commerce “provision of theconstitution which has been stretched past its breaking point for decades.
Perhaps the time has come for us to take back some of the“States Rights” that have been trampled by Washington. Maybe even sew up the“Interstate commerce:” clause so that it deals with what it should not whetheryou wear a seat belt or helmet.
I don’t have the answers only questions but I do know thatmore and more powerful central government is not the answer.