The Single Amendment Solution

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This is a manifesto. It describes a specific problem and shouts, "Let's fix this!"

The fix is a single amendment. And the means for the fix is an Article V Convention of the States. Article V of the Constitution of the United States enables an end-run around our deadlocked, self-centered, self-dealing Congress. Neither the president, nor any other agency of the government, state or national, including the Supreme Court, can stop the amendment of the Constitution if at least 32 states decide an amended constitution is what this national crisis requires. Most of the 7,382 state legislators are not aware that right now, today, they have this power.

Republican legislators hold total control in 24 states—68 of the 98 legislative chambers. 31 of the 50 state governors are Republican. Democrats control both the governor’s office and the legislatures of only 7 states. The time has come.

However, there is a problem. There are proposals everywhere. We are swamped with alternatives. We are massively confused as to what ought to come next. But these alternatives and corrections and proposals to reverse trends will not fix our nation. The ballot box is useless. We have spiraled beyond the easy fix. It will take every one of us. 10s of millions of Americans in the street chanting a single phrase with focus on a single avenue of action.

The Single Amendment Solution.

This manifesto identifies the core of the problem and gives it a name: The Administrative State. It directs your attention to the enormous quantity of cash required to run its massive body with tentacles wiggling into every conceivable area of human activity. And it points out its vulnerabilities; the fact that this flow of cash depends entirely on hard working, creative, entrepreneurial Americans and their continued subjugation and passive obedience.

That flow of cash is the vulnerability. That is the lynchpin.

The solution is a single amendment replacing the 16th Amendment. Not a fix. Not a reform. It just eliminates. It eliminates the IRS and the current tax code entirely. It doesn't put anything back. Nobody that I know has ever asked the question, "What if we just eliminate the whole damn thing?" Poof, it's gone. Like a failed restaurant; we lock the doors and walk away. That's the proposal. When you ask the question, "What if we just shut it down," a second question comes immediately to mind, "How then, would we fund the national government?"

This manifesto answers that question. And the answer is astonishingly simple.
Moreover, this single 30-word amendment will balance the budget, limit spending, eliminate the IRS, render term limits unnecessary, and return full sovereignty to the states.

With that single amendment, we will accomplish the following:

The immediate termination of the Internal Revenue Service
Shift spending oversight from the powerless individual to state legislators
Trigger a new trend toward small government by painless attrition
Return business sector management to the states, saving the nation billions
Motivate expatriate businesses returning trillions to the national economy
Motivate foreign businesses to relocate here creating billions
Gutting the purpose, leverage, and focus of K Street lobbyists
Deliver a devastating blow to cronyism
Trigger a deposing of the Imperial Presidency

It is said that the mission statement of a new business should be short enough to write on the back of a business card. Try it. Get out a business card. Flip it over. And write on the back:

“To strip the federal government of its access to an unlimited supply of money.