Reclaiming the Tenth Amendment

TPPF Policy Orientation panel:

Reclaiming the Tenth Amendment

Mario Loyola (TPPF); Rep. Matt Krause (R - Tarrant County); Rep. Steve Toth (R - Ft. Bend County); Adam Berry (Indiana Gov Mike Pence's office)

Matt Krause:

• We've already become slaves to blood money from Washington D.C., we're just negotiating price.

• If the federal govt wants to do something unconstitutional in Texas, make them execute and enforce it.

• We've got to stop taking money from the federal government if we want independence.

Steve Toth:

• The reason he won is that Texans want government by the people, not the special interests.

• "It pains me" that measures that would push back against the Feds can't get a vote in the Texas House

• 15 years ago, Medicaid was 2.5% of the state budget; today its 25%.
• The more $ we spend on Medicaid, the more the Feds send to Texas

Adam Berry:

•  Special interest groups are a lot louder than the general public.

Mario Loyola:

• The progressive and New Deal movement didn't ruin the Constitution for the heck of it; they did it to form cartels that serve as centers of power.
• Textbook Alinsky
• By getting a government official on board, all of a sudden you're safe from anti-trust prosecution.
• You can't have state based cartels in a system of competing states

• Federal government is supposed to have exclusive domain under the enumerated powers, states have everything else.

• The federal government would rather implement their policies through the states than on their own.

• Give the states $$ to bloat their budgets, then they have to do what you say.
• ie. Blackmail

• You HAVE to separate state and federal functions
• Anytime you don't do that, you make the states deputies of the feds.

• 'Coercive federalism' allows states to spend 40% more than they take in.

• Progressives are brilliant at hiding the cost side of their schemes.

Bottom Line: Creating economic dynamism in the states that don't buy into federal overreach will create the counter constituency to overwhelm the progressive constituency.