For instance, the Constitution says that the Federal Government was to maintain a system of post roads and regulate interstate commerce. This language was used to justify the construction of the interstate highway system. The Federal Government pays to maintain the interstate highway system via a tax on gasoline. Therefore those that buy gasoline, are using the highways and voluntarily paying for its use.
In the same way the Federal Government is to maintain the Interstate Highway system, the Federal Government should have paid for a national rail system. Those companies and citizens that use the rail system would then pay for its maintenance. The same logic could be used for oil pipelines, cellphone towers, and internet infrastructure. Private companies could pay to use the interstates, rail, and cellphone towers, and internet, but there wouldn't be mega-companies created and robber-barons set up to control this interstate infrastructure.
One area in which the Federal Government fails to collect "usage taxation" on is our own currency. If the Federal Government created 100% of all US currency (no fractional reserve lending/money multiplier), then the US Government could collect prime interest on all loans (Safety Society Banking System). Prime interest, together with tariffs could fund the US Government without needing an unconstitutional income tax.
It seems that the Federal Government is doing everything its not supposed to do and nothing of what it was intended to do.
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