Sunday, March 23, 2014

Judge Napolitano: The Pope, the Constitution, and Economics 101

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  1. Funny to hear him start off by doing damage control over the John Stewart fiasco. He knows he made a fool of himself. He's quite angry at the historians who corrected the nonsense he was spewing. Civil War started over a tariff? hahahaahaha........good one. No mention of the tariff in South Carolina's secession document. It's all about slavery.

    He makes a ton of inaccurate statements about Constitutional law. Income taxes were not prohibited under the Constitution. The Supreme Court ruled that since a property tax was a direct tax income from property was a direct tax. The ruling was struck down later and the 16th Amendment cleared up the confusion regarding direct taxation. Congress has always had the power to tax wages. The junk he says about the 9th Amendment is exactly that, junk. What can you expect from someone who believes the Constitution gives the states the power to secede.

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    1. Yeah, and then there's Jefferson Davis's Inaugural Address which is almost exclusively about tariffs and free trade.

      http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/primarysources/davisinaugural1.html

      Guess we can just ignore that, since it's inconvenient.

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    2. According to Comrade Jerry, in the USSA there is so much freedom that the States cannot ever, ever leave. Thus saith our overlords in D.C. All hail the central power, our wise overlords, and their Hamiltonian/Fascist System!

      Bill Hicks comes to mind: "You are free... to do as we tell you, America!" This is the attitude of the sociopaths in the high levels of government and their minions like Jerry.

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    3. Good grief... The income tax was struck down (after the civil war) as unconstitutional. If I remember correctly, Chief Justice chase put in the income tax when he was Secretary of State, or something, then later declared it to be unconstitutional. There's a reason they needed to amend the constitution to tax income.

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    4. "Income taxes were not prohibited under the Constitution."

      Then what is the 16th amendment for, you Constitutional scholar?

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    5. The Constitution doesn't need to "give states the power to secede" because the Constitution was written by the states to give powers to the federal government they created. The states have all powers not delegated by them to the federal government or prohibited to them specifically in the Constitution. The Obama administration needs to pay a better quality of troll.

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  2. Jim Grant's lecture on Hazlitt is pretty dope.

    http://mises.org/media/8259/Hazlitt-My-Hero

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  3. That Paleo diet sure messed Napolitano up. He aged very quickly the last few years.

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    1. Older overweight people that lose weight always look older because they have more loose skin than someone what was never overweight to start.

      So while he looks a little older rest assured he's much healthier internally.

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  4. Judge Andy for Attorney General!!

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