Is Birthright Citizenship Constitutional?

___The argument that an illegal alien can step into the United States, claim legal and political jurisdiction, and confer citizenship to their child is insane. People claiming to be Constitutional experts saying that the 14th Amendment allows birthright citizenship are dead wrong. The 14th Amendment didn’t even give citizenship to Native Americans, why would it give citizenship to illegal aliens? The Constitution is on our side in a second way: Article 1 Section 8, which grants plenary power to Congress to establish a uniform rule of naturalization. We’re tired of being told someone can come into our country illegally, claim citizenship, and we’re told there’s nothing we can do about it. We have policies that promote illegal aliens and illegal alien children more than the American citizen and American child – we’re committing national suicide.

Read more at:

http://conservativebyte.com/2015/08/mark-levin-congress-can-end-birthright-citizenship-without-amending-the-constitution/

Flat Tax v. Fair Tax

___The Flat Tax is becoming popular again. Steve Forbes has been a supporter for years. Ben Carson with his tithe is favoring a Flat Tax. It is still an income tax and there is still an I.R.S.! Will it be truly flat? Most will insist on deductions for charitable giving and mortgage interest. How many other "must have" deductions would have to be kept? Steve Forbes "post card return" will grow!

___The Fair Tax is a consumption tax. The first step is the repeal of the 16th Amendment. That gets rid of the income tax legally and most if not all I.R.S. employees. Ted Cruz would jokingly send them to guard our southern border, and I must admit I.R.S. auditors could scare illegals. The Fair Tax is not regressive like a simple sales tax. It has a prebate which sends a monthly check for necessities - up to the poverty level - to everyone. As Huckabee has stated F.I.C.A. taxes on wages are not sufficient to fund Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid. Capital gains and illegal income are not taxed. Eventually these programs will be bankrupt and must be paid from general funds. Christie is also correct that the eligibility age must be gradually increased. When passed in 1935 the average age at death was about 64 - less than the age for eligibility. The dramatic increase in life expectancy may not be ignored. As has been said entitlement reform must be discussed since it plus interest make up 71% of the budget. To continually debate the 29% discretionary part and ignore the 71% is folly!

___The truth is Congress must be forced to pass tax reform of any kind. Their power is in the 70,000 pages of favors and social engineering of the Code.

Ted Cruz on School Choice

___“The facts are unequivocal - school choice improves students' test scores, keeps them in school longer, saves taxpayer dollars, provides a safer learning environment, and increases competition and quality in traditional public schools.”

Scalia Dissent in King v. Burwell

___"This Court’s two decisions on the Act will surely be remembered through the years. The somersaults of statutory interpretation they have performed (“penalty” means tax … “established by the State” means not established by the State) will be cited by liti­gants endlessly, to the confusion of honest jurisprudence. And the cases will publish forever the discouraging truth that the Supreme Court of the United States favors some laws over others, and is prepared to do whatever it takes to uphold and assist its favorites."

___Now the PPACA is being challenged again because SCOTUS has determined that it is a "tax" bill, but the LAW states:

All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.

___H.R. 3590, the bill that became Obamacare, was originally titled “Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act of 2009” and had nothing to do with health care.

___But to secure passage of Obamacare, the Senate decided to take this bill, which had passed the House, and gut it entirely, replacing the entire text of that bill with the Obamacare title and text and keeping only the bill number. After it passed the Senate, the House then approved the new Senate-drafted bill through a reconciliation bill. The House made no changes to the text, which, because of the Senate’s obscure procedural rules, meant that when the bill went back to the Senate, it was not subject to a filibuster. This was significant because, in the interim, Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., had died and been replaced by Scott Brown, R-Mass., thereby depriving the Democrats of the 60 votes they would need to defeat an otherwise inevitable Republican filibuster.

Can an American Lose Her/His Citizenship?

___”All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” My citizenship is due to my birth in Alabama. My father's citizenship is due to his birth in North Carolina. My mother's citizenship is due to her birth in Alabama. My wife was born in Scotland to a Polish father and a Scottish mother. They came to the United States when she was several months old. Persons not born in the United States may become citizens by rejecting allegiance to the country of their birth and swearing allegiance to the United States. In my wife's case she recited the pledge of allegiance daily in elementary school in Hawaii. All citizens must be subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.

___If an American citizen travels to another country with the intent of giving allegiance to the country or training to harm the United States, then her/his passport should be seized and destroyed. As enemies they should be rejected from ever entering the United States.

SCotUS Decision on Same-Sex Marriage is Bizarre!

___Even if the Justices supported same-sex marriage, to extend it to ALL states is bizarre. May a prostitute from Nevada - where prostitution is legal - practice her/his trade in a state where prostitution is illegal? What is the difference in the sin of sodomy being legalized and the sin of prostitution being legalized? What about marijuana use and sales? Will the states that currently prohibit this be forced to allow use and sales by people from states where this is legal?

___To make this decision the five Justices appealed to the 14th Amendment while ignoring the 10th Amendment. This is bizarre since the 10th was a part of the original Bill of Rights and the 14th was ratified in 1868 to protect the rights of freed slaves! Note that the 14th is a favorite of "legislators from the bench" for birthright citizenship, legalizing abortion, overturning the vote of Florida, etc. Two of the five Justices had performed same-sex marriages and should have recused themselves.

___In the 1800s, Wisconsin refused to honor the illegal Dred Scott (blacks are not human) decision. Current-day legal authorities should follow this precedent!

Enforce the Laws or Be Tried as an Accessory!

___The California case involved 32 year old Kathryn Steinle, who was walking with her father on a pier in the “sanctuary city” of San Francisco. An illegal immigrant who had been deported five times prior killed her. The Texas case involved an illegal immigrant who had been deported four times prior. Police say the man admitted to murdering his wife with a hammer.

___The legal authorities responsible for these tragedies should be arrested and tried as accessories to murder. There must be penalties for allowing crimes to be committed. It is called a rule of law. Otherwise we are no different from a third-world country.

___This includes automatically giving "citizenship" to babies born in the United States. The much abused 14th Amendment has a second condition: subject to the jurisdiction thereof. Babies could get "conditional citizenship" until it becomes evident that they are not subject to the Constitution. At that point, they should be stripped of their birthright citizenship and deported. Citizenship should always be a privilege.

___San Francisco is directly violating federal law, as are all of the other sanctuary cities. Under Section 642 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. §1373), it is a violation of federal law for any state or local government to “prohibit, or in any way restrict” law enforcement or other government officials from sending or receiving information from the federal government on the “citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual.”

___Three murders (Tony Bologna and his two teenage sons) occurred in 2008. The Mayor and City Council of San Francisco are accessories. The Steinle and Bologna families need to bring a civil suit against them regardless of an criminal action. A multimillion dollar judgement against city officials might get their attention!