Illegal Immigration Law...

So, Arizona passed a law making it illegal to be in the country illegally. Sounds almost like a law already in existence to me. Main "gripes" about this law: 


1.) Un-constitutional - Which constitution? If the Arizona Constitution, then ok, I have never read it. The ninth and tenth amendment of the American Constitution makes it pretty clear to me that Arizona can do whatever the hell it wants.


2.) This makes Arizona a Police-State - This is based on the simple fact that this law will require citizens to produce ID to prove their citizenship. Sorry but every American does this rather regularly, I personally produced my ID four times today. ID was required for me to buy a R rated movie, purchase tobacco, buy spraypaint, and purchase alcohol. Not to mention it would have been necessary to produce said ID if I was pulled over while driving, or had to defend myself with a concealed handgun. Sorry, but all four things I needed ID for (just today) are slightly less important than simply verifying my citizenship. So, if the "Police-State" is the problem, look at what is already going on.

Lesson From Jefferson round two

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."

- Thomas Jefferson

"I think when you spread the wealth around, It's good for everybody" 

- Barack Obama 

I was planning on writing a few paragraphs about this comparison, but this one pretty much speaks for itself. 

Nanny-State 1919-2010

     In 1919 a progressive America passed the 18th amendment to the Constitution banning the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol. This quickly turned into one of the most un-popular nanny-state laws in world history. It spawned millions of "criminals" nearly overnight and created victimless1 crimes for the first time in America. Near the end of the debacle almost 15 million dollars per year (190M adj. for inflation) was being spent by the federal government just for prohibition enforcement. That does not include incarceration expenses or mention budget cuts in other areas or raised taxes. People turned to violence and crime to be able to either drink or sell liquor, and the first stirrings2 of organized crime appeared in this country. Only fourteen years later America repealed the amendment with the 21st, making the 18th the only amendment to the Constitution ever repealed. 

Healthshare Challenges

Fourteen states are currently mounting challenges to the constitutionality of this Healthcare monstrosity. Millions of Americans are loudly and even violently speaking out against this joke of a law. Businesses are coming out of the woodwork with estimates of O'care costing them up to a billion dollars, in AT&T's case, 970M for Verizon, and this in a recession with unemployment around 10%. Increasing the budget of the IRS by 10 Billion, as this bill does, is branded as a cost saver to the American people. Increasing the funding, with tax dollars, of the agency that collects taxes, can result in nothing more than higher taxes. Even if this new IRS funding somehow made the tax code more fair/efficient, and resulted in slightly higher government income, they would barely break even, much less provide "affordable" healthcare, via the US taxpayer, for 16 million1 US citizens2 through the act.

Lesson From Jefferson

"The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits."
- Thomas Jefferson

For an interesting contrast fast forward to today:

"the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties, says what the states can't do to you, says what the federal government can't do to you, but it doesn't say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf."9
- Senator Barack Obama, 2001 public radio interview