Yes, so many people aren't aware of this amendment, which changed the way US Senators were chosen. Prior to this change, they were chosen by the state legislators. After, by the people. That may seem like a 'good idea' to some, but think of it this way. Most of the STATE legislatures in our country are republican majority. From that you can extrapolate that right now, we'd have a filibuster proof republican majority in the US senate as well.
But, we also have mega cities now, which tend blue, and they dominate the rest of the state. I think the city clout is the part that has to be corrected. Even in choosing Senators. The big cities will have more state legislators.
The government needed a way to make money/tax the people. So we handed them a blank check and they told us... don't worry it will only be 1%. The bill of rights is a set of negative rights. The government can not do XYZ to you. That same sort of limitation needs to be added to the 16th. It doesn't need to be repealed but it needs some sort of limitation put on it.
If we limited how much money they could barrow and how much they could take from us then the government would have 1/10th the power it does today and would be half its current size. Instead we spend every election cycle arguing over tax hikes or reductions while they grow large and larger plus put us in so much debt we might never pay it all off.
Yes, so many people aren't aware of this amendment, which changed the way US Senators were chosen. Prior to this change, they were chosen by the state legislators. After, by the people. That may seem like a 'good idea' to some, but think of it this way. Most of the STATE legislatures in our country are republican majority. From that you can extrapolate that right now, we'd have a filibuster proof republican majority in the US senate as well.
But, we also have mega cities now, which tend blue, and they dominate the rest of the state. I think the city clout is the part that has to be corrected. Even in choosing Senators. The big cities will have more state legislators.
You have a point about concentrated populations. I don't know what we do about that.
I contend we do not have blue cities, we have stolen elections.
Exactly. Pay less attention to symptoms and look at root causes. EVERY SINGLE TINY BIT of our problems stem from two things.
#1 - We allowed them to corrupt the education of our children.
#2 - We allowed them to cheat in elections.
You fix those two things and everything else will fix itself.
As a side note the 16th Amendment was a much greater blow to freedom than the 17th.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
The government needed a way to make money/tax the people. So we handed them a blank check and they told us... don't worry it will only be 1%. The bill of rights is a set of negative rights. The government can not do XYZ to you. That same sort of limitation needs to be added to the 16th. It doesn't need to be repealed but it needs some sort of limitation put on it.
If we limited how much money they could barrow and how much they could take from us then the government would have 1/10th the power it does today and would be half its current size. Instead we spend every election cycle arguing over tax hikes or reductions while they grow large and larger plus put us in so much debt we might never pay it all off.