[lit-ideas] Re: Paying taxes for months on end

  • From: Brian <cabrian@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 12:45:05 -0500

On May 24, 2005, at 5:21 PM, Judy Evans wrote:

> Tuesday, May 24, 2005, 8:51:27 PM, Brian wrote:
>
> B> On 5/24/05, Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> B>  To your (1) I say you're wrong.  In this country
> B> we've gone mad with invented rights.
>
> Anyway... what rights would you say have been invented
> over there?

The two that come to mind immediately are the right to privacy and  
right to abortion, supposedly found in the Constitution.

> B>  The U.S. is
> B> constitutionally barred from using the federal government for these
> B> purposes, which is why I oppose federalized health care and support
> B> the abolishment of the Department of Education.
>
> By which part of the Constitution?

Amendment X.  Nowhere in the Constitution is the federal government  
delegated the power to regulate or fund elementary or secondary  
education, or health care.

Brian
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