Thread: Trump prepares EO to close down unconstitutional Federal Dept. of Education +Taxes

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See: White House preparing executive order to abolish the Education Department

Feb. 4, 2025

"The White House is preparing an executive order to eliminate the Education Department, two sources familiar with the plans told NBC News. "

The truth is, there is no provision listed beneath Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1, [Congress’s power to lay and collect taxes] allowing for a federal “Department of Education”

In fact, prior to the adoption of our existing Constitution, the People of Maryland delegated the power for a state funded and regulated educational system to their state elected officials, and not to a national governing power --- the wording being as follows:

“The General Assembly, at its First Session after the adoption of this Constitution, shall by Law establish throughout the State a thorough and efficient System of Free Public Schools; and shall provide by taxation, or otherwise, for their maintenance.”

The Maryland Constitutional also states, in emphatic terms:

“the People of this State have the sole and exclusive right of regulating the internal government and police thereof, as a free, sovereign and independent State.”

In fact, under Art. 3 of Maryland’s Constitution, the command is for local regulation and funding of education as opposed to a federally funded and regulated public school system!

The Maryland Constitution also states:

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution thereof, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people thereof.”

This very provision of Maryland’s Declaration of Rights is also agreed to by the People of the United States by their ratification of the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States!

Now, with respect to our federal Constitution and its delegated powers, upon researching the record of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, we find Delegate Charles Pickney, on August 18th, proposed a broad power "To establish seminaries for the promotion of literature and the arts and sciences", but this proposal was rejected by the Convention in favor of a limited grant of power expressed in Article 1, Section 8, Cl.8, of the proposed constitution. The limited power, later agreed upon by ratification of our Constitution authorizes Congress "[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts” and what is authorized to accomplish this? by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."

The fact is, the federal Department of Education and its current functions are in defiance of the defined and limited powers granted to Congress. And every time a member of Congress votes to fund this agency they are committing a fraud upon the people of the United States and are usurping a power not granted!

So, why are members of Congress funding this rouge agency?

Trump should also close down the unconstitutional National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities.

Are we to forget how both have openly participated in indoctrination, propaganda, and use of tax dollars to display sexual deviant behavior such as Andres Serrano's anti-Christian bigotry called "P*** Christ"; Robert Mapplethorpe’s homosexual display called “The Perfect Moment”; Annie Sprinkle’s pornographic performances at a New York theater; Karen Finley, “the nude, chocolate smeared women”; Kyle Abraham’s “The Watershed and When the Wolves Came In” focusing on sexual identity; a 2016 festival for sexual deviant singing groups who appeared in a “flash mob” in Denver; taxpayer financing for a sexual deviant festival in San Francisco; funding for the Feminist Press at the City University of New York to digitize classic LGBT titles; an open mic group in D.C for story telling about “Queer Culture in America"; and the latest venomous and hateful smut on display financed by tax revenue being Shakespeare In Central Park depicting the violent murder of President Trump.
Our Founders were absolutely correct to limit Congress’ power to “… securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries”


With respect to closing down the above mentioned agencies Representative Page's words, spoken on Feb.7th, 1792 elaborates on the suffering we now experience by our Constitution being subverted.

"The framers of the Constitution guarded so much against a possibility of such partial preferences as might be given, if Congress had the right to grant them, that, even to encourage learning and useful arts, the granting of patents is the extent of their power. And surely nothing could be less dangerous to the sovereignty or interest of the individual States than the encouragement which might be given to ingenious inventors or promoters of valuable inventions in the arts and sciences. The encouragement which the General Government might give to the fine arts, to commerce, to manufactures, and agriculture, might, if judiciously applied, redound to the honor of Congress, and the splendor, magnificence, and real advantage of the United States; but the wise framers of our Constitution saw that, if Congress had the power of exerting what has been called a royal munificence for these purposes, Congress might, like many royal benefactors, misplace their munificence; might elevate sycophants, and be inattentive to men unfriendly to the views of Government; might reward the ingenuity of the citizens of one State, and neglect a much greater genius of another. A citizen of a powerful State it might be said, was attended to, whilst that of one of less weight in the Federal scale was totally neglected. It is not sufficient, to remove these objections, to say, as some gentlemen have said, that Congress in incapable of partiality or absurdities, and that they are as far from committing them as my colleagues or myself. I tell them the Constitution was formed on a supposition of human frailty, and to restrain abuses of mistaken powers.” SEE: Annals of Congress Feb 7th,1792 Rep Page (enter 194 in the small box at the top of the page)


It's time to end unconstitutional appropriations of federal revenue, especially to agencies and departments who use such money to propagandize the minds of our nation's children as does Randi Weingarten's crowd

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Here is an example of the Democrat Leadership setting their heads on fire because their various slush funds and money laundering operations are being exposed.

Here they are . . . exhibiting their unhinged lunatic frenzy

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Where in the Constitution has Congress been granted a power to tax and spend for State public school systems?

Originally Posted by johnwk

. Where in the Constitution has Congress been granted a power to tax and spend for State public school systems?

Just searched through the Articles and Amendments for "public schools" and it does not appear.

Originally Posted by GaiaGoddess

Just searched through the Articles and Amendments for "public schools" and it does not appear.

And yet, the Federal Department of Education has awarded $ millions for “training” in critical race theory.

See: Federal taxpayers pay millions to fund critical race theory program that trains students to promote CRT

It has been asserted that Congress is authorized to tax and spend for state public school system under Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 (the general welfare clause).



But that is not what the words of our founders indicate. In fact, our Founders agreed to a list of particulars found beneath Article, 1, Section 8, Clause 1 for which Congress may lay and collect taxes. So, exactly what did our founders say with regard to this question [general welfare]?

Madison states in Federalist Paper No. 45:

“ The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected.

The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State."


And, in No. 41 Federalist, Madison, goes on to explain the meaning of “general welfare” to the Anti-Federalists as follows:

"It has been urged and echoed, that the power “to lay and collect taxes…to pay the debts, and provide for the common defense and the general welfare of the United States amounts to an unlimited commission to exercise every power which may be alleged to be necessary for the common defense or general welfare. No stronger proof could be given of the distress under which these writers labor [the anti-federalists] for objections, than their stooping to such a misconstruction…But what color can this objection have, when a specification of the object alluded to by these general terms immediately follows, and is not ever separated by a longer pause than a semicolon?..For what purpose could the enumeration of particular powers be inserted, if these and all others were meant to be included in the preceding general power…But the idea of an enumeration of particulars which neither explain nor qualify the general meaning…is an absurdity.”



And Hamilton writing in Federalist No. 83, which was written to explain the meaning of the Constitution, he refers to a “specification of particulars” which Hamilton goes on to say “evidently excludes all pretension to a general legislative authority“. That “specification of particulars” is found beneath Article 1 Section 8, Clause 1, which I previously mentioned.


Additionally, in the Virginia ratification Convention Madison again explains the limited meaning of the phrase “general welfare” as follows: “… the powers of the federal government are enumerated; it can only operate in certain cases; it has legislative powers on defined and limited objects, beyond which it cannot extend its jurisdiction.” [3 Elliots 95]

Also see Nicholas, 3 Elliot 443 regarding the general welfare clause, which he pointed out “was united, not to the general power of legislation, but to the particular power of laying and collecting taxes…”

Similarly, George Mason, in the Virginia ratification Convention cautions the convention:

“The Congress should have power to provide for the general welfare of the Union, I grant. But I wish a clause in the Constitution, with respect to all powers which are not granted, that they are retained by the states. Otherwise the power of providing for the general welfare may be perverted to its destruction.”. [3 Elliots 442]



For this very reason the Tenth Amendment was quickly ratified to intentionally put to rest any question whatsoever regarding the meaning of the general welfare clause, and thereby it cut off the pretext to allow Congress, or the Courts, to extend the federal government’s powers via the wording provide for the “general welfare“.


JWK

On another tax issue we might consider, see this NEW research from Zack at WolvesAndFinance:

MORE TAXES?? New Tax Increases Coming Soon



Summary:

• Trump has been President for a few weeks and a lot has been going on.
  
  • But I wanted to highlight the one thing that is really important...
    
    • What is happening with your money.
  
  
• A war is about to break out in Washington DC, as Donald Trump prepares to put together the first budget proposal for his new term.
• As an accountant, I watch the budget committees very closely so I can let you know what is going on.
• What I uncovered is going to shock you.
• If we do not stop this, you are about to be hit with some massive tax increases.

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Channel: WolvesAndFinance
Published: 2/9/25
13:04 minutes

Originally Posted by GaiaGoddess

On another tax issue we might consider, see this NEW research from Zack at WolvesAndFinance:

MORE TAXES?? New Tax Increases Coming Soon

It would be nice to have a written article rather than a video. And if the speaker didn't know federal tax revenue is and has been going to provide economic needs to illegal entrant foreign nationals, I suspect he has not been paying attention for a very long time.

Originally Posted by johnwk

It would be nice to have a written article rather than a video. And if the speaker didn't know federal tax revenue is and has been going to provide economic needs to illegal entrant foreign nationals, I suspect he has not been paying attention for a very long time.

True about his comment on money to the illegals, yet he consistently gives good overviews. The video has a document review, too