Balanced budgets and illegal aliens

The answers to our nation's broken tax system, our ever expanding debt, and the invasion by illegal aliens lie right in front of our faces. As usual, the Constitution tells us exactly how to solve the problems.

Originally, federal spending was restricted to paying for only those specific government functions listed in the Constitution, and the agencies needed to carry out those responsibilities. In order to keep spending in check, the tax burden for the federal government was shared proportionally among the States according to population.

Since the State with the most Congressional votes was also the State responsible for the largest share of the tax burden, costs were naturally kept in check.

I reject the idea that we need a balanced budget amendment added to the Constitution. Repealing the 16th amendment and returning to our foundation would be simpler and more effective.

Those who argue in favor of a National Sales Tax, as I have until recently, do so based on a faulty premise. As the Constitution really exists as an agreement between States rather than between individuals, virtually no power was originally given to the federal government to interfere in the lives of individual Americans (eminent domain and encarceration/execution according to "due process" are two exceptions). The "Fair Tax" people agree to the premise that the federal government ought to have the power to tax individual Americans. I say it does not.

I firmly believe that the IRS must be eliminated and all federal revenue be acquired via a once-annual transfer of funds from each State into the federal treasury. States would be free to levy taxes against its own people in any manner it wishes, and would be responsible for a proportionate share of the federal budget according to the total number of persons inhabiting the State.

Notice the distinction between inhabitants and Citizens. If a State like California had to figure the illegal aliens living in their State into their total population, thereby impacting their tax liability, I believe the illegal alien problem would go away within weeks.

Any Congressmen who oppose this plan are clearly more interested in controlling your money while enriching themselves and their friends than they are in upholding our Constitution or preserving our Republic.

The problem with my plan is that Americans are bound and determined to continue electing Democrats and Republicans to office expecting the politicians to finally act differently than they have for decades. It won't happen. The only chance we have to salvage our once great country is to replace every member of the US Congress except Ron Paul and Tom Tancredo with men and women who believe in the founding principles of our nation and who are more afraid of the American People than the corporate lobbyists.