Obama's "spread the wealth" tax plan is unconstitutional!

[Gary G]

Obama's "spread the wealth" tax plan is unconstitutional!

"To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association—“the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.”- Thomas Jefferson

[rebAL]

See;  There you go again with that "Outdated ideology".  We are  just going to  have to learn how to think more "Progressive".   I guess we all need to go back to school and get retaught by our current public educators.  Free enterprise and free markets need to be tweeked by government bureocrats after they screw them up with their intervention (All in the name of fairness).  Even Alan Greenspan now realizes this.  I'm afraid we need to just bend over and take it.

[torpedoman]

a lot of stuff the government does is unconstitutional, they are used to getting away with it.

[Graybeard]

So is Obama being this far along in the campaign without furnishing proof he is a natuarl born US citizen as EVERY single person who has ever before run for the office had to do.

Why is it he is the only person in US history who has been allowed to get this far without showing such evidence? Why is it that if he is he won't show it?

[billy_56081]

 I agree with you Bill, I guess we are Outdated ideology. I'm starting to get to the point that lets get the revolution started and may our side win by the grace of God. it's gonna be bloody and it's gonna be hard but, if it weren't for bloody and hard we would still be subjects of England. It's getting to be time for us to quit bitching and start acting. This might sound a bit harsh to some of ya all and ya know what it is harsh!

[rebAL]

B/O also thinks our constitution is "Flawed" because all it provides is "Negative rights" of what our government can't do, implying that it needs tweeking to give the federal gov't. power to enforce "Positive rights" or laws to legislate "fairness & equity".   

[goater]

the last time I looked ... Jefferson's quote was not part of the Constitution  ... please use a little intellectual honesty

[Ruskin]

Even though not a part of the Constitution, it lends to intrepretation of what the founding fathers believed when they drafted our founding documents.

[Gary G]

the last time I looked ... Jefferson's quote was not part of the Constitution  ... please use a little intellectual honesty

No, but his thoughts are pertinent because after all, he was the one who wrote drafted the constitution.

The meaning of what Jefferson said is however in the constitution: "nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation".

[Of course many things the government does today are unconstitutional. Even our fiat money is unconstitutional.]