Sheriff Mack Part V

In the chapter of The County Sheriff titled “Real Criminals,” Sheriff Mack tells Americans that the IRS should never have existed in the first place. There should be no tax on incomes. The 16^th Amendment, which supposedly authorized Congress to collect income tax, was never ratified by the states. Sheriff Mack summarizes his chapter on the IRS by saying, “Why would any Sheriff trust the IRS or allow them inside his county?”

In the chapter “Legal Advice,” Mack tells Americans that the county sheriff has no superior or boss, except for the people. He does from time to time receive “legal advice from the county attorney. However, there is nothing that requires the sheriff to follow such advice and, for the most part, it is not legally binding.”

In his “Making of America” chapter, Sheriff Mack writes that when the Constitution was drafted, “The absolute and most vital of all assets to be protected was liberty.” He argues that our nation today is the opposite of the one desired by our founders. Mack concludes that countless institutions—EPA, FCC, OSHA, Department of Education, FBI, CIA, Homeland Security, INS, BATFE, HUD, BIA, SEC, the Federal Reserve, DEA, the Forest Service, BLM, and of course our own American version of the notorious WWII Gestapo, the IRS—were never meant to be, based upon the enumerated powers granted under the Constitution. I carry a mini copy of the Constitution with me at all times. Article I, Section 8, lists all the enumerated power of Congress. Here is the short and specific list:

Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution:

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow money on the credit of the United States;

To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;

To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;

To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;

To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;

To establish post offices and post roads;

To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;

To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;

To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;

To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;

To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;

To provide and maintain a navy;

To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;

To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings;—And

To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.

I’ll let you be the judge. This is the final mini summary on Sheriff Richard Mack’s The County Sheriff: America’s Last Hope. I obviously feel that Sheriff Mack has a profound understanding of the intent of America’s founders, namely Jefferson and Madison. As a country, we have since come off the tracks. Listen to Rush any day of the week. Record the Glenn Beck show on FOX News every day at 5:00 p.m. and play it back for your whole family. And buy a gang of copies of Sheriff Mack’s great The County Sheriff: America’s Last Hope to pass around to all of your friends. Finally, it’s time to fly the yellow Don’t Tread on Me flag for liberty and freedom. It’s a brand new day. SheriffMack.com.

Don’t Give Obama a VAT – Grover Norquist, Human Events
The value-added tax (VAT) is the calling card of big-government socialists around the world. The VAT is not a new form of taxation in the minds of socialists; it’s an additional form of taxation. The plan is not like the FairTax, which would have eliminated the income tax in favor of an explicit consumption tax seen and felt by all Americans. The VAT is implicitly priced in through the businesses that add value so the final consumers (most voters) aren’t aware that it is being levied. VAT is a way to hide the cost of government from the people, making them angry at businesses for high prices, not government for high taxation. Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, has developed the congressional Anti-VAT Caucus. Joe Wilson, whom I recently endorsed, is part of the caucus. You should see if your congressman and senators are, and if not, ask them why. – Dick Young

Viva Christie – Daniel Foster, National Review
Congratulations to Chris Christie for his success in battling the teachers’ unions in New Jersey. It’s hard to take a line against “the children,” but when teachers aren’t actually helping the children, it’s time to stand up. The number of new teacher hires was growing faster than the number of new students in New Jersey, and benefits keep going up. This was an untenable situation that Governor Christie has put a stop to. Good for him. – Dick Young

Contentious, Costly, and Irrational Cap and Trade: A Policy Slated to Crush the U.S. Economy – BPeck, FreedomWorks.org
Cap and trade will, very simply, tax the air you breathe. Taxing carbon emissions is a ploy by the Radical Progressive Movement to generate revenue and to limit the power of big corporations to resist their demands. What can any person of sound mind think is actually going to happen if cap and trade is implemented? If you didn’t answer skyrocketing energy prices, with the revenues not going to innovative businesses but instead to quagmire bureaucracies, you’re wrong. – Timothy Jones