I suspect the US Supreme Court would say that is unconstitutional because the US Constitution lists the requirements to hold those federal offices, and the states cannot add to the requirements. I don't AGREE that the states can't do so, but I suspect the Supreme Court would take that position.

If forced to choose – and we ARE forced to choose – the only one of these that MIGHT stand a chance is the amendment. A single amendment that lists explicitly what areas the federal government has jurisdiction over, and bars them from involving themselves in any other areas without a constitutional amendment granting them the authority to do so, MIGHT get the approval of 3/4 of the states. The way to sell it might be to note how the failed policies of states like CA and NY cost the wiser states an *enormous* amount of money.

It's a tough nut to crack, but we HAVE to crack it. Soon.

"Ours is a system of governments, compounded of the separate governments of the several States composing the Union, and of one common government of all its members, called the Government of the United States. The former proceeded the latter, which was created by their agency. "

"It is federal, because it is the government of States united in a political union, in contradistinction to a government of individuals, that is, by what is usually called, a social compact. To express it more concisely, it is federal and not national because it is the government of a community of States, and not the government of a single State or Nation."

At some point we need a constitutional convention limited to the scope of checking the supreme courts constructions that alter the balance of power and to repair the balance where it has been abused by the other branches. The government was never to be entrusted with powers we could not control and they have over time created exactly that, uncontrollable power.

We need to strip the power away from the federal government and give it back to the states. This entails putting severe limits on the federal Congress without necessarily ending entitlement programs. Give welfare, social security. medicare, et al to the states while removing the Congress' power to implement such acts. When the local voters have control to end programs or move to states that will, the mess will sort itself out.

Example of this power are the social engineering and effective laws they have created using this tax, as well as the entrapment powers the executive branch has accumulated with it’s threat of Audit over private corporations.

We have observed this being uses quite destructively in their efforts to force private companies to take federal bail out money, as well as on numerous more minor occasions by politicians for apparently political proposes, targeting enemies.

One way or the other this destructive power must be mitigated if not totally ended.

Now it may be true that the federal government needs the money from the income tax, if that is the case we can institute a compromise, by means of what is effetely a Federal Tax Escrow like account. The idea being very simple:

1: The State government by law forcefully rout all federal income tax dollars thou a State account.

2: In that State account the States will get rid of the personal and individual information, and then deliver the lump sum to the Federal Government. Thus providing the Federal government with its tax dollars and GENERAL Taxing powers, while denying the Federal government the individual data needed to enforce it’s Unconstitutional discriminating/controlling income tax laws.

3: To deal with Tax fraud the States will establish its own department either as an extension of its preexisting IRS like origination or the creation of some new origination, or conditional cooperation with the existing IRS.
While at all time retaining securely the individual information as to prevent it from being abused by federal officers or employees, thus protecting the right of the people from being deprive of their liberty and property without due process of law by the Federal government in this way.

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4: Later on some states will be-able to uses this same control over the federal tax contributions to force the federal government to pay for what they mandate upon the State, thus prohibiting unfunded mandates.

I do not know how constitutional this all is, but if it is not constitutional we should look at amending the Constitution as to make it constitutional one way or the other.

In absents of such an Amendment and It being soundly regarded as constitutional, I think it may be regarded as fair game to do it anyway given it is done precisely to enforce the constitution and protect our essence rights from a overstepping and increasingly oppressive federal government.

But in any case we will need a significant number of states agreeing with us and doing it at the same time, because the Feds WILL very likely respond rather harshly.

I also recommend doing it slowly and evasively, as so that they may not care at first.

It’s plausible if necessary we could say: “if you don’t care about the constitution nether do we”

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