A couple of days ago, we shared the article ‘Down With The King‘ by Brian at The 28th Amendment Proposal.  This article is our road map to reclaim the liberties that our founding fathers intended for us to have and most importantly keep.  If you’ve not read it yet, I highly encourage you to take a few minutes and read it.

The 28th Amendment Proposal (The28thAmendmentProposal.org) is the organization that is designing and organizing the grassroots movement needed to adopt this amendment into the US Constitution.  Adopting this amendment is going to take lots of help and assistance from volunteers, but I am confident that we can make this happen.  This proposed amendment is true change that our country needs.

The Proposed 28th Amendment:

First Draft Proposal

Section 1.
The 16th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.

Section 2.
Congress may collect no revenue by any means other than a flat individual income tax not to exceed 15% of an individual’s earnings, a flat corporate tax not to exceed 10% of net revenues, and actual user fees for services. All citizens and businesses shall be taxed at the same rate, and no exceptions, exemptions or credits will be allowed.

Section 3.
A. Any budget passed by the Congress must be funded by actual revenues collected through taxes as described in Section 2. Except in time of War as defined below, no deficit spending, borrowing on future funds, borrowing from other entities or other mechanism to meet budget requirements will be allowed.

B. For purposes of this section, “War” shall be defined as hostilities declared by the President of the United States in his Constitutional role as Commander-in-Chief, and duly authorized by the Congress under the terms of the “War Powers Act” of 1973. Any funds borrowed shall be used exclusively for executing that War and shall be re-paid entirely no later than 15 years from the end of the War.

Section 4.
All agencies, programs, entitlements and other devices that will be excised by budgetary requirements will be returned to the responsibility of the individual States. No federal regulations or legislation will dictate how the States fund or execute such devices.

Section 5.
The Congress may not make State eligibility for redistribution of revenue contingent on compliance with regulations or legislation that has the effect of a nationally uniform standard.

Section 6.
Those areas of federal responsibility prescribed by the original Constitution will have budgetary priority. No bill will be passed that funds any other concern without first meeting the budgetary requirements of these areas. No funding will be included in the budget for a concern that is the responsibility of and reserved to the States.

Section 7.
Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution is hereby amended to read as follows:

“To regulate commerce with foreign nations and with the Indian tribes”

Please note that this is the first draft proposal and the most up to date proposal of the 28th Amendment will always be available on The28thAmendmentProposal.org.

Remember, the 28th Amendment ‘is NOT a tax reform proposal, nor a balanced budget initiative; it IS a smaller federal government effort that only uses those “tools”, among others, to FORCE the federal government to contract in size and scope.’

Brian mentions:

We most need volunteers at this point to simply spread the word. Send e-mails to your entire address book, post on bulletin boards and forums, add information to your blogs or forward to those you know who have blogs, write letters to the editor, discuss at the coffee shop, call local and national talk radio shows – be creative! Whatever you can do to encourage people to visit the site, and get involved themselves, will help this growing movement gain even more momentum and energy.

Two specific areas where we can focus some “word of mouth” promotion are through the gatherings that are becoming more common around the country (town hall meetings, tea parties, 912 marches, etc.) and through social networking.

If you are interested in volunteering and being a part of this nationwide effort, please send an email to volunteer [at] the28thamendmentproposal.org or visit the28thamendmentproposal.org for more information about the movement.  If you’re on Twitter, I encourage you to follow @28thamendment.  Please use hashtag #28th when spreading the word to your family and friends on Twitter.  If you’re on Facebook, please become a fan of theirs.