Enc Tea Party Meeting - Article V Convention of States (and the use of a Balanced Budget Amendment to Obscure its Dangers) | Eastern NC Now

    Please join the ENC Tea Party on Thursday evening, April 14, at 6:00 pm at La Ribera Mexican Restaurant to learn about the second option provided in the US Constitution for adding amendments - the Article V Convention of States (aka, Constitutional Convention, aka Con-Con). This option has never been used and as the 1787 Convention in Philadelphia proved to the world, once delegates from the several states meet in official convention, even if the purpose is strictly defined (as it was in 1787), there is the very real possibility that something very different will become the product. Currently, the NC state legislature is trying to move a very controversial bill forward - HB 366. HB 366 is a proposal drafted by Compact for America (an aggressive Convention of States group) for states to enter into a compact for the purposes of petitioning the US Congress, under Article V, to call a Convention of States to draft a Balanced Budget Amendment. If the bill passes, NC will be the 5th state to adopt such legislation and join the compact. While a Balanced Budget amendment sounds harmless and in fact, sounds like an important "check" on government spending, the effect could not be farther from the truth. The wording of the proposal, and HB 366, presents some very real dangers and evils, and opens the door, in explicit terms, for additional taxes on the American people. It also acknowledges that the US Congress can, indeed, tax and spend for whatever purposes it wants, which in no way at all serves to restore the legislative branch to constitutional limits. If you hope that your children and grandchildren will not be saddled with burdensome national debt, then you will NOT want the government to be given the explicit option under this proposed amendment to impose additional taxes on them.

    Now, the bill also provides that the states have to OK if the increase in federal spending is significant. Here is the reality on that provision. If the government wants to push its increased budget on the states, it will simply threaten to cut all funds ear-marked to the states. The states, which enjoy their parasitic relationship with the government, will never vote to cut off funding and so every increase will be approved.

    Our guest speaker will be Wynne Coleman, founder of No Convention of States NC (NoCOS NC), who is an expert on this topic and who has been following HB 366.

    Please join the ENC Tea Party on April 14 to learn about this potentially historic and potentially devastating movement that is tapping into the frustration of American taxpayers and threatening to erode our Constitution. There are other options available - ones that our Founders have taught and have promoted - and we will be exploring them in the very near future.

    House Bill 366 (HB 366) -

    "The US has more to fear from an uninformed citizenry than from an ambitious government. Government may have the ambitions, but only the ballot box can sanction those ambitions."

ENC TEA PARTY MEETING:

WHEN: Thursday, April 14
TIME: 6:15 pm (dinner and social to start at 5:30 pm)
WHERE: La Ribera restaurant (back conference room), in the Arlington Village (at the corner of Red Banks Rd. and Arlington Blvd) - Arlington Village, 658 E Arlington Blvd, Greenville, NC 27858

TOPIC: ARTICLE V CONVENTION OF STATES (and NC House Bill 366)
SPEAKERS: Wynne Coleman, founder of NoCOS NC

    For information on Article V, the Convention of States movement, and HB366, please consult the several articles posted on this website (Categories: "Alerts" and "Education" and "Videos")