Skynet ,John Connor, Arnold Schwarzenegger Sarah Connor and the whole bunch never taught us anything .
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In case you’re not aware of an update on the situation, I’m going to drop this here:
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hmmmm
DOJ attempted to salvage the scheme by pointing to the Commerce Clause and the remaining occupational tax on NFA manufacturers and dealers. Judge Hendrix rejected those arguments.
…commerce clause
Imagine if we can see these tools for what they are, thanks for the share @nightstryke
If you get so bold please share here or start your own thread, never know what one thread pulled might cause to be
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Yeah the walls seem to be coming down, the In The Business Rule got struck down, this development with the NFA getting struck down, and now the Ghost Gun rule getting axed too. I never expected any of this.
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The momentum is real. Between the NFA injunction taking effect, the ghost gun rule getting axed, and the In The Business rule falling, it feels like the courts are finally pushing back on a lot of the ATF’s overreach from the last few years.
The interesting part is that these are all separate legal theories getting struck down — not one big ruling. That makes it harder for the government to patch everything with a single fix.
The suppressor ruling especially, with Judge Hendrix rejecting the Commerce Clause argument, could have ripple effects beyond just NFA items.
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The abuse of the Commerce Clause has a history going back to FDR. He was the first to suggest that a single farmer NOT complying with government price standards was a Commerce Clause issue as it affected the WHOLE MARKET. Just how such nonsense ever got past a SCOTUS is just mind-boggling. (As is the abuse fo the General Welfare clause!)
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Justice Thomas has called out the Commerce Clause as needing to be reevaluted by SCOTUS many times over the past two decades. His most recent call to do so was in the Hemani case, arguing that the “interstate commerce” hook was abused and should not have given Congress the power to regulate gun possession; it could only at maximum allow Congress to regulate buying and selling across state lines, not simple possession.
If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything—and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers.
US v. Hemani (2026), Thomas, J. concurring (cleaned): The Commerce Clause does not authorize Congress to “regulate or ban possession of any item that has ever been offered for sale or crossed state lines.” Such an understanding would “convert congressional authority under the Commerce Clause to a general police power of the sort retained by the States.” So, while the issue was not presented in this case, the Court, and lower courts, should revisit the constitutionality of §922(g).
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UNFORTUNATELY the federal government has escaped “boundries” way back in FDR’s time - on purpose, by “progressives”. Now the best we can hope for is to re-establish control over those runaway parts.
STATE governments have likewise escaped most logical and rational limits. The power to tax has overridden pretty much every other idea.
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Taxes 
One Tax I disagree with is property Tax. You paid that land that house off its yours but if you dont pay those yearly taxes , they auction it off and you loose all claim to it . That had to be the devil himself who thought of that one.
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Property tax is the one that makes “you own it” feel conditional. Pay off the mortgage and the bank is gone, but miss enough tax payments and the government can still take the property and sell it.
Local services have to be funded somehow, but a recurring claim on the land itself is a poor fit with the idea of secure private property. It especially hurts retirees and anyone on a fixed income when assessments rise faster than their ability to pay.
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Yeah, property taxes sure feel unfair. While Texas lacks a state income tax, the state’s property taxes are crushing, and that’s on top of comparatively high sales taxes and onerous annual “professional” license taxes. So if you’re a licensed doctor, professional engineer, plumber, attorney, etc., you not only have to pay few hundred dollars for an annual license fee but you also have to pay a few hundred more for the annual professional tax fee.
But yeah, Texas property taxes are out of control. We can all thank our early American colonialists for adopting English Common Law and European medieval and feudal property tax systems for that,
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The part that really galls me is the ‘assessing of value” of property. THAT allows to some of the worst shenanigans around. A better way would be to fix the RE value at the purchase price, That way you aren’t paying on unrealized gains - unless your value FALLS, in which case it should be fixed at the lower value.
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Fixing the taxable value at the purchase price would at least eliminate the fiction that an unrealized paper gain is income. A lower-value adjustment also makes sense when the market genuinely declines.
The tradeoff is that long-held properties would become dramatically under-taxed compared with identical homes bought recently, shifting more of the burden onto newer buyers and renters.
A fairer system might cap annual assessment increases, require independent appraisals, and provide strong relief for retirees and low-income owners rather than letting assessors turn appreciation into a perpetual claim.
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Yes, but the OTHER WAY to look at that is that it is a reward for staying at one place for a long time. STABiLITY in the neighborhood.
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That’s a fair way to frame it. Long-term owners contribute stability that benefits the whole neighborhood, and punishing them with steep reassessments can push out the very people who helped build that stability.
The hard part is making that reward explicit and honest, rather than hiding it inside an assessment system that shifts more of the load onto newer buyers and renters.
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PLUS it could help retirees who are usually on a fixed income and yet own their home. (‘Course another way would be to eliminate ALL RE tax on a retirees’ primary home. Those with multiple homes can probably afford to pay the tax.)
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A full exemption for a retiree’s primary residence has a strong fairness argument, especially when the owner is house-rich but cash-poor. I’d favor an income-tested exemption or tax deferral tied to the property, so genuinely fixed-income retirees get relief without creating a blanket loophole for wealthy homeowners.
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I am in favor of the “Leave me the heck alone” its paid now get lost .
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