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and final paper on <U>Taxes/Appropriations/Organization Reforms,</U> during the terms of the 103rd Congress, and the Clinton administration, we will complete the discussion of federal and states interfaces.  As promised, we first address the question posed in the letter to the editor at the end of the previous essay.  "With gambling as pervasive as it is now", and with it growing, "how long will it take before our civilization goes down the tubes?"</div> <bR> <div> 16. (continued)  A news article dated May 1, 1994, entitled "LIVING-ROOM CASINO--High-tech firms bet on electronic home gambling", gives us some insight.  Excerpts: "On the odds that legal barriers will keep falling like dominoes, investors are staking millions on projects to move horse racing, lotteries, bingo and other gambling attractions into America's living rooms."</div> <div> "Their aim is to deliver home gambling through an assortment of technologies--including interactive television, on-line computer networks and 'smart' telephones with touch-sensitive display screens."  "Essentially, it's just off-track betting made easier.  You wouldn't have to leave the house.  It's a gambler's dream."</div> <div> "For some perhaps, a nightmare. 'Compulsive gambling leads to everything from suicide to embezzlement to family violence,' said ... [an] executive director of the National Council on Compulsive Gambling."</div> <div> A member of the Council "said there has not been adequate research about the potential social consequences of legalized gambling from home.  A particular concern is the effect on children.  It's not only about children having access to gambling themselves, but also about children watching family members gamble."</div> <div> "The possibility of excessive gambling is a consideration for businesses."  "... someone might gamble his way into poverty, then blame [a business] for making gambling attractive."</div> <div>      It appears that, unless We the People can elect and appoint leadership who are committed to  overcome the sway of money and power, our nation is doomed to repeat with gambling the other slimy slope slides experienced in the last 30 to 50 years.  </div> <div>      Just after World War II, there was little legalized gambling except in the state of Nevada.  In fact, the federal government at that time tightened the laws on interstate transportation of gambling devices.  It set an example by requiring that all slot machines be removed from clubs on military bases and other federal properties.  States followed suit.  We have seen how rapidly the pendulum has swung in the opposite direction since the mid 1960s.  The social problems that are likely to be entailed with further legalization of gambling (particularly the living-room casino) are frightening.</div> <bR> <div>      We started the degrading of the marital privilege, with the Supreme Court discovering an unwritten privacy section in the Constitution.  The first slip opened the doors to the manufacture, sale, and use by married couples of contraceptives.  This was quickly extended (in fairness?) to unmarried man and woman couples.</div> <div>   </div> <div>      Privacy became center stage.  The entertainment and communication industries were given open license to trash the marital privilege.  Unnatural intimate acts were also first given acceptability in private for consenting adults.  Privacy restrictions were let lapse, in favor of open political and social activities, including fatal disease breeding bath houses, and adult bookstores.  </div> <div>      Birth control was extended to the legalization of genocide, for over a million developing human beings annually. Birth control instruction and devices are being extended to our children just entering puberty.  Pressure is strong and building to legalize euthanasia, and assisted suicide.  The future bodes an unlimited degree of social degradation. </div> <div>      In earlier RESPONSIBILITY papers, similar patterns have been outlined for pornography, guns, gangs, crime, and divorce.  </div> <div> 17. The 10th Amendment to the Constitution (the last of the Bill of Rights) has long since lost most of its significance.  Few powers <I>"are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."</I>  It has been eclipsed by extensive reliance by Congress on its power, expressed in the last paragraph of Article I Section 8 of the Constitution.  That is <I>"to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper ..."</I></div> <div> The Congress (and the Presidency in its executive role) has been remiss in governing with this dichotomy.  The federal government has treated states, counties, and cities, as subordinate managing units, without accepting its top level management responsibility, to insure that subordinates have the means to carry out its dictates.  The Congress and the President (in league with a political federal Judiciary) have by-passed and ignored the constitutionally intended checks and balances by the states.</div> <div> A prime example is the lack of firm and long term national foreign and domestic policies, in relation to immigration.  One consequence is covered in a news column published April 30, 1994, with the label "California sues U.S. for cost of imprisoning illegal immigrants".  Quotes: "SAN DIEGO--In a move Arizona is expected to soon follow, [the] California Governor ... sued the federal government Friday, seeking nearly $2 billion to reimburse the state's costs of imprisoning illegal immigrants."  "Arizona will file a similar suit on Monday."  "Florida already has filed a similar suit."  "The states contend the federal government owes them billions of dollars for providing services such as health care, education and prisons to illegal immigrants that the states say should come under federal jurisdiction."</div> <bR> <div> Failure in managing immigration is but one area, in which the federal government short-changes the states (and therewith We the People).  A good recap was presented in an editorial of May 12, 1994, headed "Congress' bills funny, but costly".  Extracts: "The 'I Hate Congress' club has gained dozens of valuable new members, the nation's mayors and governors."  "Stop making us pay for laws that you won't finance yourselves."  "Unfunded mandates have become a way of life in Washington because they let politicians appease special interests without having to foot the bill." "Now, mayors and governors are striking back.  They want Congress to understand that its dream for the future has become a nightmare for everybody else." </div> <div> The nightmares go beyond the failure of Congress, to provide sure funding for its mandates when a law is first passed, or when it is amplified by executive branch directives (or when the Supreme Court steps in with its own legislation sans funding).  The federal government uses funding extortion, to discipline the cities and states.  In effect, after the fact, it says if you don't do as I dictate, I'll withhold the federal funding for costs to which you are already irretrievably committed.  More prevalent now, the federal government reneges on its funding for numerous state and city level mandates, because of budgeting constraints at the federal level.</div> <bR> <div> Moreover cities and states are constrained to sucking hind teats, when it comes to taxes and borrowing.       Unlike the federal government, they are generally precluded from deficit financing. With the federal government hogging so much of the latitude for taxing, they are the first to bear the anger of the electorate, about taxes being too high or unfair.  Through referendums, threats of recalls, quicker access to state courts, and more direct ballot pressure; the people more readily get to legislatures and councils, than they can to the Congress.  In like manner, the saturation of the foreign and domestic credit markets with national debt instruments, limits and makes costly state borrowing for multi-year projects (many of which result from federal mandates).  </div> <div>      We the People must see to it that the checks and balances of the states, on the national government (President, Congress and Supreme Court), are reestablished through law changes, and where necessary amendments to the Constitution.  The reforms proposed in these RESPONSIBILITY papers are requisite to this end.</div> <bR> <div>      Don't look now, but the current and pending actions on health care, guns, crime, poverty (welfare reform), et al,are all ramming up against this same brick wall!  Read on.</div> <bR> <div>                          Publius IV</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id119.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Responsibility 86"><U>Responsibility #86</U></A></div> <div> Back to: <A HREF="id33.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Responsibility Contents"><U>Responsibility Contents</U></A></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>