In today's hyperbolic, 24/7 news cycle, every outlet has their bias. More than ever it seems that the news is based more in sensationalized headlines, designed more for generating clicks than for informing the readers.
At 1776 Analysis, we tend more toward an Originalist understanding of the proper size and scope of government.
This Federalist Paper goes a long way in explaining the enumerated Congressional powers in Section 1 Article 8 of the US Constitution. The Congressional powers were supposed to be very limited, and were to be used to provide levels of uniformity between the States in specific areas.
The House has a bill in committee called HR 5717 - Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act of 2020. The bill proposes to do a number of things from establishing a Federal Firearms License to own firearms and ammunition, raise the minimum age to purchase a firearm, defines and bans “assault” weapons, bans “silencers” and mufflers, enforces secure gun storage orders, and levies heavy taxes on firearms and ammunition. In the end, HR 5717 is an attempt to strip away liberty, minimize the Second Amendment, and criminalize otherwise benign firearms ownership.
In less than a month, State governments have begun to issue stay at home orders, some States have criminalized leaving your home, public gatherings have been banned, public parks have been closed, schools have been closed for the school year, and we have simply gone along. Is that really a power we want vested in our governments?
Therefore, it is very difficult to look at this situation as anything other than insider trading. Members of Congress have clearly participated in the stock market to either realize a personal financial gain or mitigate a probable upcoming loss using information they have access to by virtue of their position in Congress while denying that information to the American people.
A single Union of the 13 states was the remedy to internal aggression among the States and a unified front against all foreign agitators. By creating a federal government over the 13 States, uniformity of defense for all parts could be provided and internal aggression could be mitigated. No other construct, outside a Union of the 13 States, could provide as much long-term security to the people of America.
In October of 2015, California enacted a law (AB 1461) that required the Department of Motor Vehicles to forward records for eligible applicants to the Secretary of State’s Office for registration unless those applicants elected not to register to vote. The law was well intended and aimed to reduce the leg work on behalf of the applicants to become registered voters.
COVID-19 is serious, especially if you are over 60 with pre-existing cardiovascular issues, diabetes, respiratory disease, or hypertension. If you are under 60 and otherwise healthy, there is no reason for you to be buying your local Walmart out of toilet paper.
“But the safety of the people of America against dangers from foreign force depends not only on their forbearing to give just causes of war to other nations, but also on their placing and continuing themselves in such a situation as not to invite hostility or insult.” For John Jay, even outside the just causes for war, human history was littered with wars waged at the whims of men with consolidated power.
“A cordial Union, under an efficient national government, affords them the best security that can be devised against hostilities from abroad.” In an attempt to illustrate the value of a central national government, Jay first discusses the matter of safety of the citizens of the States.
“Nothing is more certain than the indispensable necessity of government, and it is equally undeniable, that whenever and however it is instituted, the people must cede to it some of their natural rights in order to vest it with the requisite powers.”
Federalist No.1 introduced the topic of the Constitution and prepared the readers for the coming papers in support of adoption. Hamilton argued that no less than, “the existence of the Union, the safety and welfare of the parts of which it is composed, the fate of an empire in many respects the most interesting in the world,” were at stake.
Taxes are often targeted at individuals or companies, but how does the construct of the economy effect who actually pays the tax? An incidence of a tax is how the share of a tax falls on either the producer or consumer. More simply, the incidence of a tax is a measure that determines who pays the tax.
“Economics is the study of how individuals and societies choose to use the scarce resources that nature and previous generations have provided.” There are two important fundamentals outlined in the scholastic definition of Economics; resources are scarce and how resources are distributed is a product of choice. In all developed societies, access to resources is determined by volume of money (which itself is a scarce resource).
Currently, according to Real Clear Politics average of polls, Independent Senator Bernie Sanders leads the polling for the 2020 Democrat Presidential Nomination. This is not a fact that seems to be sitting well with the Democrat establishment.
