Taxation Without Representation - Monied Politics
edited Oct. 22, 2025
The following thread is a combination of a series of ideas from several users and seperate policy proposals formatted in a better manner. Here is a list of contributors, contributions, inspirations, and relevant proposals.
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Salary and Term Limits For Congress
Single Issue Bills for Congress
The Separation of the Corporatocracy and the State
Issues with the US Govât and Economy as it Functions in 2024
Median Pay for Members of Congress
Establish a Cap on Lobbying Per-Entity
Reapportionment of Representatives and Senators
Enforcement of the 1st Amendment in relation to Religious Reference in Official Text
Conversion of the US Economy from a Consumer Society to a Production Society
Preface
Through a series of subversive Acts and policies, an unapportioned Congress has wrought the Tyranny that Great Britain had sewn for the Framers of our Constitution, yet Congress is weaker and less loyal to itself; more sold out to conglomerates and special interest groups than the Monarchy ever was. Our Government has directly subverted our form of representation from itâs foundational functionality which is defined in the Constitution. Our nation sits idle, while our towns recede into abandoned lots, or merge into larger conglomerates as the funds of our citizens-which could be invested locally into independent business and infrastructure-is funneled into militant-ideological foreign powers. So much so, that our government functions entirely on a deficit, and system of credit and interests payments that will not last. Especially with a fiscally irresponsible privatized financial institution making zero effort in lowering the debt to GDP ratio which directly correlates to an increase in inflation, and weakening of buying power for the dollar. Higher debt, higher priced groceries, weaker dollar, more dollars per purchase.
Manufacturing of products, food, and energy needs to be done locally, and the only way to encourage our population to produce is to entice them with opportunities, the American Dream. Opportunities lie in a competitive market, not one limited in options by the few controlling powers. How is a upcoming local grocery store supposed to compete with a multi-national corporation with lobbyist backing?
Taxation without Representation;
US Constitution Article I, Section 2, Clause 3 says;
ââŚThe Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative;â
Representatives being apportioned to the populations they represent is extremely important to the function of our republic. One member of Congress, regardless of their standing, could not accurately represent and communicate with 700,000+ people. We have the means to manage a large House of Representatives, anything short of apportionment is the representation of political interests over the People. Reapportionment of the Representatives must be continued.
US Constitution Article I, Section 9, Clause 4 states;
âNo Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.â
Taxation needs to be established with a specific goal or purpose, always functioning on a sunset clause. The continuous direct taxation of the Peopleâs lives through their property and labor to stave off a mismanagement of government revenue through interests payments and deficit spending is directly lowering the standard of living for the citizens of the United States through inflation of the prices of goods and services, and the devaluing, debasement, and mass circulation of the dollar.
In the past the dollar was based upon a physical resource. A visible wealth owned by the collective population managed by Congress. Today, the dollar is borrowed from the Federal Reserve, meaning the dollar is backed by debt. The motivation in the early 1900s was curb the economic instability of money lending practices in banks that held physical currency. Leading to mass federalized social programs. Programs that are great in idea and morals, but lead directly to federal dependency in such a form.
The original intent was for States to establish programs funded solely by said State for a social program specific to their population, per the 10th Amendment:
âThe powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.â
The âNecessity Clauseâ was used with specific Constitutionally federal powers in mind allowing for the creation of the following original departments:
â˘The Department of State
â˘The Department of the Treasury
â˘The War Department (functioning on apportioned funds for 2 years during peacetime for a standing army)
â˘The U.S. Marshals Service
â˘The United States Mint
â˘The U.S. Postal Service
The Constitution outlines the enumerated powers of the federal government, in Article I, Section 8. These include the power to levy taxes, coin money, regulate commerce, establish lower federal courts, declare war, and maintain a postal system. Anything outside of this is Unconstitutional or a power of the States or of the People.
The system of credit and interest payments, to simplify, is based upon the guaranteed revenue stream provided by the 16th Amendment. Effectively, this amendment is the government guaranteeing the Central Bank that you will keep working and paying into the interest on the debt, with no intention of a principal payment.
These two subversive actions, the 16th Amendment and the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929, directly ends Taxation with Representation.
Monied Creation of Legislation/Lack of State Representation;
Currently there is no financial cap to what any certain type of entity can lobby for in Congress. Businesses like Walmart, Target, Amazon, McDonaldâs; all multi-million dollar, multi-national companies that could out lobby a majority of communities, and every individual; in the auction that is Congress.
Some would say there are certain advantages in funding and accumulating support for a bill through lobbying. In order to keep the benefits that financial incentive brings for legislation, but to remove the aspects that create unequal influence in Congress, we must establish a cap on the amount any entity can pay into a bill.
Other than what can be explicitly be protected by the 1st Amendment, an express stance of ending monied influence in Congress is imperative. The best way is ending the insider trading of stock and bonds for office holders, and a set salary based on the median wages of the district/state that they represent, along with term limits that do not inhibit the abilities of office holders. This would create financial incentive for politicians to increase the standard of living, and industry for their state/district.
The 17th Amendment doesnât necessarily require that any State legislature empower the executive to make a temporary appointment like the original clause did. It also extends the amount of time the appointment has in office before an actual elected official gets in office.
The original vacancy appointment clause required that the executive preform their duty at the next recess of each Stateâs legislature, and that the next meeting-not the next election period-the legislature would officially fill the vacancies. The original clauses in Article I, Clauses 1 & 2 were superior in preventing corruption and assuring representation to the States, but lacking granting the People any say in their election/appointment.
Other Subverted Rights and Government:
Our Currency violates the 1st Amendment, and our Pledge is also in violation. Some state constitutions also prohibit those who do not believe in God from holding public office. Arkansas, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas are in violation of this right. This also would include legislation outlawing practices, like Sharia Law Courts and Beth Den courts, yet laws validating the outcomes of said courts over state or federal courts is a violation of the Constitution.
Wording like âNo person who denies the existence of a Supreme Being shall hold any office in this state.â is Unconstitutional.
The use of the phrases âIn God We Trustâ and 'Under Godâ violates the First Amendment.
âCongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.â
ââŚno man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer, on account of his two religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge or affect their civil capacities.â - James Madison
âThe purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.â - James Madison
Before 1913, the US had no federalized recognition of marriage, as it is a religious institution. Yet, during the 19th century the Supreme Court over-looked this fact, failing to impose the 1st Amendment upon States whom used marriage as an oppressive institution on women in terms of legalized roles in the household.
After the 1913 Revenue Act, marriage became a federally legalized institution. Wills and civil unions exist for the legal purposes of âfederalized marriageâ whereas an integrated institution subverts our innate right to freedom of religion. The Federal Governmentâs only perceivable purpose in legal âmarriageâ or civil unions would be standardization of the age of consent and âgeneralized gender equalityâ for the Several States.
The continuation of divisive issues like gender, creed and race are nothing more than the age old divide and conquer tactic. Your innate rights are written as a reminder of caution for those in governance. Real politics consists of forms of desicion making, (in our case, whatâs supposed to be a trifecta of representation, executive desicion, and judicial body) economic management of trade and the funding of government. Anything else is fodder, no one can violate the liberty of another.
Through either petition, conventionally, or other method granted to us innately, the following actions must be taken into consideration:
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpation, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government.
What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve itâs liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is itâs natural manure. - James Madison
First, a redefinition of said entities must take place.
This Title of the US Code allows for lawmakers to skew the meaning and phrases of the bills that they pass enabling courts to grant rights to legal structures, like corporations. Correcting this blatant abusive power will require a repeal, and an amendment/act that forces all legislation to be written with clear and concise language with singular meanings.
Corrective Provisions for Title 1:
Laws in Plain Language:
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Changes-or amendments-to Title 1 must explicitly require that all new statutes must be drafted in plain, or exact language. Mean revising sections like the one specifying the interpretation of words denoting number, gender, etc., to use more contemporary and inclusive language. For instance, replacing âwords importing the singular must implore the singular and therefore the exact intention; words importing the plural must implore the plural and therefore the exact intention.â
Publication for Legislative Drafts:
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The Office of the Law Revision Counsel should be required to publicize the complete set of policy, treaties, and acts for each Congress of the United States for public transparency of government action, much like the late United States Statutes at Large. The Office of the Law Revision Counsel, responsible for preparing and revising the United States Code, could also identify outdated references and wording for Congress. This focus would help to eliminate outdated references (like âinsane personâ) and ensuring that terms are defined in a way that avoids ambiguity. But, these flagged outdated references would need approval/disapproval from an apportioned Congress
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Legislative Review Panels:
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Establish a panel that includes members from the Office of the Law Revision Counsel, plain language experts, and perhaps representatives from the public, affected communities, and a judge to review and suggest changes to Title 1, Chapter 1. This panel could recommend updates to definitions or interpretations to reflect modern standards or eliminate ambiguity-do to the latter provisions of the Code dealing with marriage and abortion.
Single-Issue Legislation:
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Ensuring that each bill deals with a single issue might lead to less complex statutory construction rules. Every law must be straightforward in its intent and scope. The need for the limitation of legislative loopholes and footnotes is dire.
Public Engagement:
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Before revising or adding to legislation, hold public consultations or use digital platforms to collect input on how the construction of legislation is understood by the public in order to establish expectations for clarity in the law that align with the intent of the law; any amendments are limited to the original intent or desired impact/effect. This could lead to amendments that reflect public comprehension and expectations for clarity in law
Government Transparency and Integrity:
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Our government should not engage in the signing of treaties or oath taking for public image. A redefinition of âoathâ is required, along with a set time period in which the US can retain the âsignedâ status of a treaty before ratification, or ratification as a prerequisite to a signature.
Second, an affordable, but influential, dollar amount must be set as a cap for individuals, corporations, companies, associations, firms, partnerships, societies, and joint stock companies; in order to create equal economic influence. Ensuing that multi-million dollar, multi-national entities have the same influence as individual citizens and business.
Third, a system of transparency, and clear âdonationâ paths must be established for the public. The influence behind any such bill should be publicized.
Fourth, all funds lobbied should have a priority purpose; either funding such proposition or going directly into the treasury/budget.
Fifth, a ban must be established on all foreign lobbying; for all entities, individuals, corporations, companies, associations, firms, partnerships, societies, joint stocks, and governments.
Sixth, the permanent continuation of the apportionment of representatives must be guaranteed, as the 1929 Act subverts the direct social contract established between the People and their government.
Seventh, the dismantling or the continuous reevaluation of all government/private agencies involved in the direct taxation of the People, subversion of Statesâ powers; deficit spending, over-circulation, and the debasement of the dollar.
Eighth, the limitation of multi-regional, multi-national horizontal and vertical expansion of business to promote a competitive and opportunitistic economy, through financial dissuasion, through new anti-trust acts that encompass all entities that conduct a form of transaction.
Vertical Expansion, could be described as single line of products/services that expands overtly in availability, and limits the opportunity of new and budding business. (as in, chain restaurants, chain retail, food packaging/production companies, etc.)
Horizontal Expansion, could be described as a multitude of products/services that expands overtly in availability, and limits the opportunity of new and budding business. (as in, mass product shipping companies, chain super stores, chain convenience stores, etc.)
Ninth, end the insider trading of stock and bonds for office holders, and require a personal audit to hold office; ban members of Congress from lobbying.
Tenth, set a salary for representative constituents based on the median wages of the district/state that they represent.
Eleventh, establish term limits for members of Congress that do not inhibit the abilities of office holders.
Twelveth, during the recess of the legislature of any State, the Executive thereof shall make temporary Appointments until the next meeting of the legislature, which shall then fill such vacancies through a special session general election.
Thirteenth, total enforcement of the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th 8th, 9th, and 10th Amendments by a Convention of the Several States, through a Repeal of the Unconstitutional/Intolerable Acts.
Fourteenth, prevention of the strict duel-partisan organization of public elections, and the establishment of funding caps for campaigns.
Fifteen, reestablishment of the currency backing clarifed in the Constitution, hard currency; gold and silver, which could then be expanded upon with socially agreed upon currency backings, like copper and nickel.
Sixteenth, a complete repeal of the 16th Amendment, and the establishment of a financial system run by direct Congressional desicions, as defined in the Constitution, i.e. resource to dollar ratios, tariffs, and US based productionism/business.
INTOLERABLE ACTS
Intolerable Acts:
â˘The Several Coinage Acts which have devalued and debased our currency.
â˘The Permanent Apportionment Act which stripped us of our Representation.
â˘The War Revenue Act of 1917 which allowed for US taxes to be allocated to a standing army during peacetime in direct violation of Article I, Section 8, Clause 12 of the Constitution.
â˘The 16th Amendment, which violates Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution.
â˘The Federal Reserve Act, which violates Article I, Section 8, Clause 5.
â˘The 17th Amendment, which allows for vacancies to be left unfilled by Corrupt Governers
â˘Erected multiple Unconstitutional Offices and federal centralization of State powers.
â˘Protecting members of Government with mock trials, from any punishment for any crimes they should commit against the Nation and its People.
â˘Formed a Partisan system of Representation of an ulterior body of governance, the Political Parties.
â˘Weaponized/entangled our currency to wage trade conflicts and prepetuate imperialist agendas.
â˘Transporting citizens and non-citizens beyond our State borders for trial, imprisonment, torture, and interrogation.
â˘Suspending our own legislatures and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us all in all cases whatsoever.
â˘Granting our taxes in the form of military aide to foreign governments whom we have publically been at odds.
â˘Affected to render the military independent of and superior to the Congressional power.
â˘Waging undeclared military action abroad for decades on the premise of world security and ideology.
â˘Formed Congress into an auction house of legislation for special interest groups.
â˘The Several Surveillance and Security Acts of 2002 which violate our 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th amendment rights under the pretense of âsafetyâ
â˘Held legislative bodies during unusual hours, locations, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of keeping the intent of legislative action hidden.
Conclusion:
Through a series of subversive Acts and policies, an unapportioned Congress has dismanteled the very function of our Constitutional Republic. Our Government has directly subverted representation in itâs foundational functionality which is defined in the Constitution. In result, our population has been indebted, and their wealth debased, devalued, and inflated. So much so, that our government functions entirely on a deficit, and system of credit and interests payments that will not last. Production of goods, food, and energy needs to be done locally, and the only way to encourage our population to produce, is to entice them with opportunities, the American Dream. Opportunities lie in a competitive market, not one limited in options by the few controlling powers. How is a upcoming local grocery store supposed to compete with a multi-national corporation with lobbyist backing? They cannot.
The purpose of this feedback is to educate, and to list economic legislation that I believe is necessary to understand how the economic systems that function within a government can influence and change the form of the government from the inside. The transformation of our Constitutional Republic, to an Aristocratic-Plutocracy.
Economic systems are not this-or-that ideologies. Simple differences in numbers and allocations can determine the prosperity of millions, or the deaths of more. In relation to current events, I feel that the beginning of directly influential economic events starts with the coinage acts of the mid-1800s as the defining changes in the pre-industrial U.S. economy that has led to the benefit of the rich and corporate, and the downtrod of the middle class. Due to the economic functions of the United States, the idea of a representative democracy is not mirrored by the internationally intertwined economies, corporations, lack of productive/manufacturing power, deficit military industrial complexes, wars fought on the false pretense of international intervention and national security that lobbied legislation has bought. Hopefully this feedback will illustrate the promise of a representative democracy being broken by a corporate neo-imperialistic plutocratic oligarchy through purchased legislation-the creation of a debt machine.
In order to achieve large amounts of spending without âbreaking the bankâ the United Statesâ spending is determined and backed by labor of its citizens and the taxes imposed on their profits and possessions. In the recent past most governmentâs money was backed by a socially agreed upon, valuable resource. Throughout the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, the United States focused on removing the backing to our currency (gold and silver, aka bimetallism) and replacing it with a system of debt, credit, interest payments and income taxes (Goldstein, J. and Kestenbaum, D. 2011) systems which serve to lower the standard of living for the working class, limit independent businesses, fund proxy wars/insurgents world wide, and to keep over 2.2 million people incarcerated (Initiative, P.P. 2020) (Bozelko, C. and Lo, R. 2018).
Through either petition, conventionally, or other method granted to us innately, the right to change or abolish our government, the previous actions must be taken into consideration.
Ideas and conflict of race, creed, gender, etc. all function as a divide and conquer tactic, abroad and here at home; we are all people. True autonomy can only be gained through homesteading.
ââŚyour Union ought to be considered as a main prop of your liberty, and that the love of the one ought to endear to you the preservation of the other.â - George Washington
âIf Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.â - James Madison
âThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.â - Benjamin Franklin
âI believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.â - Thomas Jefferson
âThe people are the only legitimate fountain of power.â - James Madison
âKnowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.â - James Madison
âI never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.â - Thomas Jefferson
âIf our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within.â - James Madison
âThe purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.â - James Madison
âPeace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.â - Thomas Jefferson
âNever spend your money before you have earned it.â - Thomas Jefferson
âWhen we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.â - Thomas Jefferson
âThe care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.â - Thomas Jefferson
âThe means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. A man has a property in his opinions and the free communications of them. No nation could preserve itself in the midst of continual warfare.â - James Madison
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