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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Kevin Rose who wrote (467165)9/30/2003 8:42:32 AM
From: Wayners  Read Replies (2) of 769670
 
The Civil War was really about the growth of big government supported by big tax increases. The Northern Congressman and Senators had a majority over the southern states in the House and Senate. Back then the Northern reps favored huge corporate type welfare to businesses in their states. To pay for it, the more affluent southern states (the "rich" in those days were more geographically located unlike today)were being taxed disproportionately and it was getting worse every year to the point that newspapers were spreading the fear of Northern confiscation of southern property. That was the cause of the real cause of the Civil War, not the slavery side I was propagandized to in school, simply because I went to school during and after the civil rights movement. You could call the Southern states the anti-federalists of the time, calling for smaller less intrusive Governmnet and lower taxes and no corporate or other welfare. When they lost finally at Apammatox, the Federalists had won and Government began to get big and grow way beyond the bounds the constitution had layed out. Check the constitution, Congress only has power to pass laws that regulate interstate commerce (the so called commerce clause) and provide for National Defense with a small standing army. Thats it--not departments of Interior, Education, Energy, Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services. There's 5 examples of big government that technically are unconstitutional. The Constitution is clear in that powers not granted to Congress and Federal Government are reserved to the States, the so-called States Rights argument.
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