The argument against an all-powerful federal government doesn't just hinge on the danger of tyranny and centralized power. While those concerns are the most important, Americans should fight back against federal overreach for another reason: incompetence.
Washington, D.C., is simply unable to implement the kinds of changes that Joe Biden and other big-government Democrats want to accomplish. Our country is too big, federal bureaucracies are too unwieldy, and federal bureaucrats are too ill-informed. Their big-government schemes aren't only wrong and tyrannical--they're also unrealistic.
That's what Donald Bryson argues in a recent editorial in North Carolina's Carolina Journal. Bryson argues that the Tar Heel State should take the lead in calling a Convention of States and bring power back where it belongs--with the states and the people.
On April 28, President Biden addressed Congress and the nation to sell a spending package, allegedly aimed at improving the nation’s infrastructure, with a $2.25 trillion price tag. In many ways, this address felt like Obama 2.0, and yet another liberal president was selling us economic stimulus with the promise of “shovel-ready” projects.
In his short time in the White House, Biden has proposed more than $4 trillion in new spending, offering the somewhat cliche liberal mantra of taxing corporations and the “wealthy” to pay for the Hindenburg-like expenditures.
We know what is going to happen. If you recall, President Obama’s “shovel-ready” stimulus projects were not as shovel-ready as he expected. In the same way, the Biden spending gambit will stutter, start, and fail without stimulating the economy, lining the pockets of a few wealthy people, and adding to inflation.
Why? Because government officials will not and cannot have enough knowledge to make appropriate investments or changes in the economy. Elected officials oversell their abilities to the public in the hopes of being re-elected, and then they under-deliver, which erodes the public’s faith in the democratic republic.
The solution to big-government incompetence is to limit federal power and return that power to local and state governments. These governments are in a much better position to know what their residents need and want--whether that involves a government program to meet a specific need or stepping back and allowing the private sector to take charge.
Washington will never give up its own power, and it's unrealistic to expect them to. That's why the people and the states must unite to call the first-ever Article V Convention of States.
A Convention of States has the power to propose constitutional amendments that limit the power, scope, and jurisdiction of the federal government. These amendments can get the feds out of a host of topics that affect everyday Americans, everything from energy to the environment to agriculture to health care to gun rights. When Washington is no longer able to legislate or spend money on these issues, the states will have the ability to either craft policy around these topics or give We the People the freedom to control their own futures.
Over five million people have voiced support for the Convention of States Project and 15 states are now on board. Sign the Convention of States Petition below to join the movement!
