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How to share Convention of States with Progressives
This isn't a red or blue movement. It's an American movement.
| Whether we as volunteers understand it or not, we are all salespeople. We are selling the idea of limiting the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, imposing fiscal restraints, and placing term limits on federal officials through Constitutional means of an Article V Convention of States. Successful salespeople understand that the customer has wants and needs. Fulfilling the customers wants and needs is the most direct route to a sale. Think of Progressives as our customers in this instance. To gain the public support needed to have our state legislators vote on an application, the movement will need support from Progressives. “You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.” Zig Ziglar said. He wrote the bestseller Life at the Top, which was published in the 1970's, reprinted in 36 languages, and remains in print today. He drew his interest in helping others from his faith in God. The article below has excellent reasons that people from the Progressive end of the political spectrum have just as much of a vested interest in an Article V application as Conservatives. The next time you encounter a Progressive, find common ground by talking to them about the Article V Convention of States movement. Encourage them to go to www.conventionofstates.com and sign the petition. When we are united, there is nothing we cannot accomplish together. > Five Reasons Progressives should support the COS Article V application > Written by Brian Higgins, March 9, 2018 Thanks to Vickie Deppe from COS Illinois for contributions to this article. Keep more of Wisconsin’s federal tax dollars in Wisconsin Wisconsin is a donor state. For every $1 Wisconsin residents and businesses send to DC in the form of federal taxes, 85¢ comes back to Wisconsin. Wisconsin ranks 38th in terms of the percentage of its budget that comes in the form of grants from DC. Washington’s one-size-fits -all programs can be much better administered by government closest to where those funds are to be spent for roads, schools and residents. States can use the COS application to limit Congress to spending money only in furtherance of its enumerated powers, thus providing a vehicle to keep more of Wisconsin’s money in Wisconsin. Require Congress to obey the laws they impose on the rest of us Worker protection: Congress has exempted itself from the Fair Labor Standards Act, age discrimination statutes, OSHA regulations, family and medical leave provisions, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It took a very public sexual harassment scandal involving a US Senator before Congress mustered the political will to provide its own employees with just some of the protections required of non-government employers. Members of Congress are exempt from the Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989. They reaffirmed the exemption in 1995 when they passed the Congressional Accountability Act that continues to exempt them from whistleblower protections. The COS application can empower the states to overturn Congressional abuse. Insider trading: In 2012 Congress was shamed into passing the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act. This was done just before the November elections in response to voter outrage directed at incumbents up for reelection. Six months after the elections Congress moved quietly, forgoing debate, and gutted the reporting requirements necessary to enforce the statute. Again, the COS application can empower the states to overturn such Congressional abuse. Level the playing field for locally owned businesses competing against big corporations > Companies should succeed because they offer a superior product or service, not because someone is putting their thumb on the scale in DC. K Street and big corporations don’t donate to political campaigns for ideological reasons, they expect something in return. One of the most common means politicians reward their supporters is through regulatory exemptions. Locally owned businesses find it ever more cumbersome to be in compliance with burdensome and complex federal regulations because they don’t have an army of attorneys and lobbyists getting them exemptions. An amendment to eliminate these abuses will go a long way to eliminating cronyism and big money influence in DC. > End the new “stop and frisk” Civil Asset Forfeiture allows government to seize a person’s property without a warrant or criminal charges. Studies have shown that this has a disproportionate impact on minority and low-income communities because they lack the financial resources to fight back. The loss of even a comparatively low-value asset can leave a struggling family financially devastated. Perhaps the most horrifying abuse of this practice is parents being threatened with having children seized by child protective services. The COS application provides the states the opportunity to end unconstitutional federal programs like “equitable sharing” and “limited use resources” that are used to confiscate the belongings of innocent Americans. Lower the black incarceration rate African-Americans face disparities at every phase of the criminal justice system. They are more likely to be arrested, aggressively charged, incarcerated, and given longer sentences than nonblacks. A recent GAO study identified 641 collateral consequences faced by those convicted of nonviolent drug offences. Many of them impact future employability, access to professional, business and motor vehicle licensing; and eligibility for government benefits, including grants, loans and contracts. These individuals face permanent disenfranchisement from civic and political participation. Use the COS process to propose an amendment to end this abuse. Ironically, racial disparity in our criminal justice system was exacerbated by the adoption of federal policies that were intended to make our justice system more race-neutral. Congress has not been able to muster the political will to walk balk [sic] their error; but the states can do it for them by using the COS application to correct federal missteps. > > 1: https://files.taxfoundation.org/legacy/docs/ftsbs-timeseries-20071016-.pdf 2: https://taxfoundation.org/states-rely-most-federal-aid/ 3: https://www.rollcall.com/news/whistleblower-day-but-not-for-hill-staff 4:https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2013/04/16/177496734/how-congress-quietlyoverhauled-its-insider-trading-law 5:https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/criminal-justice/reports/2016/04/01/134495/forfeiting-theamerican-dream/ 6: http://www.naacp.org/criminal-justice-fact-sheet/ 7: https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-law-reform/drug-law-reform/fair-sentencing-act > |
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