State Sovereignty for Alabama

Alabama’s Equity Funding

2009-11-08T09:54:00.001-08:00

Nothing Fair About Alabama's Equity Funding Program

Gene Ponder
November 7, 2009

     Alabama public education is about to take another blow to the knee cap in January of 2010. Governor Riley has issued yet another 7% proration warning to all superintendents throughout our state.   Depending upon which news program you watch, the blame game over proration is once again heating up. We have already heard from big-government proponents that you taxpayers are the problem for the economic shortfalls of public education.   Big-government proponents insist that we are not collecting enough taxes during the current economic conditions to adequately fund public education. Big-government proponents blame Alabama small business owners for avoiding their tax obligations. Big-government proponents sole answer to public education's budget shortfall seems to be more and more of the people's money. I say hogwash to their blame and their solution!

    I am a public school educator. I witness on a daily basis the fraud and abuse of state tax dollars. I also witness the misappropriation of state funds. I am a part of the most incompetent self-defeating entity in the State of Alabama; the vast bureaucracy of public education. Throwing more and more money at public education is not the answer, but the main problem with public education. Money is important and vital to build, maintain and operate public facilities, such as: paying teachers, administrators, custodians, utilities, etc...    Communities, willing to raise their local tax dollars for their local schools, end up losing their tax dollars raised to other school districts in the state. Therefore, a 1% increase in local sales taxes would result in a loss of an equal amount for our area from the state. So, why should a community willingly raise more local tax dollars for education when the current equity funding program causes a loss in State revenues and ends up costing consumers more individually?

Alabama practices public education welfare funding or what the State refers to as "equity funding". The Alabama legislature adopted a court suggestion as to how to adequately fund State owned and State operated public facilities. The federal court suggestion was to steal tax dollars from communities with high property and high sales taxes by transferring state public education tax dollars to communities with low property and low sales taxes. Equity Funding requires people to contribute to a system of theft and waste. For example, Baldwin County, Alabama alone loses $45 million dollars a year to the current equity or welfare funding system.

    As a candidate for Lt. Governor of Alabama, I propose a system of equality funding for public education. Every student in the State of Alabama should be treated and funded equally. Regardless of race, religion, age, gender, disability or location of residence, I support and maintain the position of treating and funding every single child in our State equally. We must fight to end the current system of discrimination and inequality of state funding for public education. I know that treating people equally under the law may seem inequitable to some of the bigots, who run and operate our State government, however, most Alabamians still believe in the morality of equality.

    When the State of Alabama funds every child equally, I believe taxpayers will willingly contribute more of their tax dollars to local education. What a sad era of time we live, when treating people equally under the law seems to be unfair policy. I propose, ending the wasteful and over bloated county school systems by implementing community schools. Community schools will be controlled by people in the local community. Community schools will increase community pride and increase local tax money for Alabama schools by reducing the top-down wasteful bureaucracy of county school systems.

In Liberty,

Gene Ponder
Candidate for Lt. Governor of Alabama 2010
www.electgeneponder.com

2009-08-22T16:25:00.001-07:00

A Concurrent Resolution Proposal for

The Alabama Legislature 2010

Gene Ponder, Candidate for Lt. Governor of Alabama 2010

CLAIMING SOVEREIGNTY UNDER THE TENTH AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION OVER ALL UNDELEGATED FEDERAL POWERS, SERVING NOTICE TO THE FEDERAL LEGISLATURE, EXECUTIVE, AND JUDICIAL BRANCHES OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO CEASE AND DESIST ALL ILLEGITIMATE MANDATES AND PROVIDING THAT ALL UNDELEGATED FEDERAL LEGISLATION BE PROHIBITED OR REPEALED EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY.

Whereas, the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States reads as follows: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people"; and

Whereas, the Tenth Amendment defines the total and final scope of federal power as being that specifically granted by the Constitution of the United States and on more; and

Whereas, the scope of power defined by the Tenth Amendment means that the federal government was created by the states specifically to be an agent of the states; and

Whereas, today, in 2009, the states are demonstrably treated as agents of the federal government and subject to federal coercion, intimidation and blackmail; and

Whereas, many federal laws, all informal executive powers, and all judicially active court rulings are directly in violation of the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; and

Whereas, the Tenth Amendment assures that we, the people of the United States of America and each sovereign state in the Union of States, now have, and have always had, rights the federal government man not usurp; and

Whereas, Article IV, section 4, United States Constitution, says in part, "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government", Article I section 9 clauses 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 have been and continue to be violated, and the Ninth Amendment states that "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people"; and

Whereas, a number of proposals from previous administrations and many now pending from the present administration and from Congress may further violate the Constitution of the United States.

Therefore

Be it proposed by the Lt. Governor (Candidate) of the State of Alabama, the House of Representatives and the Senate, that:

That the State of Alabama hereby claims sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise expressly delegated and granted to the federal government by the Constitution of the United States.
That this proposed Resolution serves as notice and demand to the federal government, as our agent, to cease and desist, effective immediately, all mandates that are beyond the scope of these constitutionally delegated powers.
That all compulsory federal legislation that directs states to comply under threat of force by civil or criminal penalties or sanctions or requires states to pass legislation or lose federal funding be prohibited or repealed.
That the Secretary of State of the State of Alabama transmit copies of this proposed resolution to the President of the United States, the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, the Speaker of the House and the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate of each state's legislature and each Member of Congress from the State of Alabama.

Alabama State Sovereignty Campaign

2009-08-15T12:12:00.000-07:00

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