Every
election cycle we hear about how every vote must count, how every voter must
have equal access to the ballot box, and how no one can be denied the
opportunity to express their voice to how the government is run. This concern
has been seized upon as the primary interest of the Democratic Party who have
made it their party's crusade to ensure fairness in every election, by the
careful, fair supervision of the voting process in every voting precinct.
But
while this is the public rhetoric, the private reality is much different. The
fact is, while Democrats are preaching fairness and equity among voters, in
Congress they have seized control through a scheme that has taken over the
legislative branch of the Federal government, and done so in a manner that
permanently denies all of us the full value of our vote.
How
this has been done has, until now, never been explained. At first glance this
observation seems to be another unfounded conspiracy, but no observation on how
government has managed to steal the value of our vote can be more solidly
founded on the principles of our republican form of government and the
realities of the national budget.
In
order to understand how this vote theft has been perpetrated it’s necessary to
briefly review the nature of the American form of national government. From the
Declaration of Independence, Notes on the Debate which formed the Constitution,
and the final Constitution these principles are certain: that the U.S.
government derives its power and authority to govern from the will and consent
of the people. And that to consult with the people, Congress, as written in the
Constitution, is up for reelection every two years. The President of the U.S.
every four years.
Here’s
the big question: does this mean that all policy issues are up for reelection
every two years? The Constitution does give guidance on this issue. It lists 18
policy issues that Congress will provide for. These include the Army and Navy.
The only limit on time regarding the national budget is mentioned for the Army:
no appropriations for the Army can be for more than a term of two years. This
places an absolute two-year limit on appropriations.
The
other essential fact of budgeting is that all bills of appropriations shall
originate in the House of Representatives, then voted on by the Senate and
signed or vetoed by the president. This clearly states that all appropriations
require an act of legislation specific to that appropriation, and by
implication that the appropriation cannot last for more than two years.
It’s
this two-year time limit that has been seized upon by Democrats as a loophole
and violated. In addition, they have seized upon the idea, clearly violative of
the Constitution, that all acts of appropriation must be passed by the House.
Does
this mean Congress can pass the Social
Security Act in 1935 and force all subsequent voters to pay for it? Or
does it mean Social Security should be voted on by the voters and their
representatives in Congress every year? After all, there is nothing in the
one-year limit of appropriations that would prevent Social Security from
continuing for many decades.
But
the difficulty, what makes this issue more dangerous to the country’s
republican form of government, is that two developments regarding this trend
clearly violate the Constitution. One is that by mandating Congress fund Social
Security forever, Congress clearly usurps the authority of the people to
provide their will and consent to the program. Keep in mind the people still
have the opportunity to reappropriate money through Congress every year.
The
issue then is whether or not these so-called “mandatory” spending programs
violate the U.S. Constitution, and they clearly do. Here’s why: the
Congressional Research Service reviewed the mandatory spending programs and
published their report in 1996 called “Mandatory
Spending Since 1962.” The very first sentence of the report states:
“Mandatory spending is composed of budget outlays controlled by laws other than
appropriation acts.”
In
1985 Congress passed the “Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act” and defined “spending authority” as
“authority provided in laws other than appropriation acts… and includes
contract authority, authority to borrow, and entitlement authority if budget
authority to make the required payments has not been provided in advance by
appropriation acts.’ The reader can decide how this payment without
appropriation acts comports with the requirement that an act of appropriations
can only originate in the House of Representatives, as cited in the
constitution.
The
link then, between the will and consent of the people and how your money is
spent by Congress, has been completely broken. The facts prove the point: in
fiscal year 1985, 58% of the money
spent was not provided for in the annual appropriations process. You
and I had absolutely no say in how 58% of tax money was spent in 1985 and the
loss of our will and consent as to how Congress spends our money on policies of
our choice, as we express them in the ballot box, has dramatically increased.
While
permanent appropriations, backdoor spending and spending authority are three of
the basic constitutionally corrupt schemes developed to force us to spend money
without our consent, deficit spending and debt cannot be overlooked, for these
simple reasons: debt creates tax appropriation burdens for future taxpayers.
That means taxpayers in the future have no say as to how their taxes are spent.
Deficit spending also spends money exceeding revenues: it spends money the
taxpayers didn’t pay. So future taxpayers are required to pay for the money
spent by past voter groups.
Since
every two years a new, unique set of voters is supposed to be allowed to
express its will and consent; debt and interest payments force future
taxpayers to support the will and consent of past voters. I call every two-year
group of voters a voter cohort. The Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that
every vote must count, that all votes have equal weight in an election. But the
Court has never addressed the issue of votes cast by different voter cohorts
over time. Only votes cast on the same day.
The
loss of the value of our vote is complete. Due to the spending of Democrats and
Obama in 2010 we lost the entire value of our vote: more was spent onmandatory
spending (over which we have no opportunity to consent) interest
payments on
the debt, and deficits. In 2016, just last November, we had access to only
9% of the value of our vote. When the “pre-spent” amounts equal 100%, that
means we have no say at all over how policies in the budget express our will
and consent. We are there.
So
while cleverly scamming people into believing they worry that “every vote
counts” Democrats have forced us to pay for their entitlement programs, the
programs that keep them in power. They have permanently
taken over Congress. It doesn’t matter if non-citizens vote, or what
identity groups prefer. The die has been cast.
