am # Bob, is there a legal term for recent law upending prior right?
Besides “government”, I mean. There are countless laws on the books lying unchallenged that any reasonable mind would think were direct violations of the Bill of Rights. In fact, I’ve witnessed entire court systems built on direct contravention of scores of precedents up into the 20th Century, not even going back to the Constitution. Seems anything whatsoever goes until somebody has a success in the SCOTUS. Legislative constitutional review is a joke. Comment by Rusty on 11/13 @ 8:44 am # Snocone is holding up Social Security as if it’s something the government does well. First principals snowy, first principals. Comment by meya on 11/13 @ 8:51 am # “The government has decided it’s their JOB to find new and ever more complicated ways to extract our money from us. yeah but that doesn’t matter to BigD. BigD’s “everything is taxed” works with just a simple VAT or flat tax (of course it’s kind of misleading to say a “flat tax” is simple — the difficulty is in defining the taxable income, n
