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..if the state of Texas has overstepped peoples' constitutional rights then that is more of a travesty than anything "the cult" has been accused of.
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State governments, in cases like this and others, overstep constitutional rights all of the time. How can you have a "voluntary" income tax in this country but yet be forced to volunteer? This question is just one, of many, which the federal courts have declined to rule on for reasons of their own convenience. Maybe if we get a long-term shakeup in SCOTUS and lower courts we will see a decline in legal hypocrisy and tyranny in this country. I don't think this can happen though until we also stop trying to be the world's policeman while simultaneously being determined to take care of all the needs of our own people. Many legal reforms will require the money to finance them, and the govt. has tried every kind of trick, fraud, shell game, creative borrowing and financing possible, with the present agony we are in the result. It's all going to suddenly collapse soon!