that will hopefully shut down a lot of the worst stuff.
I just don't know anymore. We've seen a lot of executive fiats that are wildly unconstitutional that many people are still living under.
FDR literally rounded up Japanese people, confiscated their property, and put them in internment camps with an executive order. He criminalized the possession of gold and silver also with only an executive order.
Both were upheld by the Supreme Court. The later was regularly upheld by the Supreme Court on multiple cases well past FDR's term. Both involved federal felonies and mandatory prison sentences.
To this day, the internment ruling by the supreme court has not been overturned. The executive order simply stopped being executed. Gerald Ford de-criminalized private bullion ownership by a counter EO in 1974. For 41 years, you could be imprisoned for 10 years if you were caught selling gold coins without a licence, and for anything but the purpose of coin collection.
With The Great Reset planned, I could easily see a Harris administration invoking mandatory quarantine orders for outbreaks of Covid, or racism since that's a public health crisis too, as well as an executive ban on gold, silver, and crypto when they are trying to introduce a digital currency. Hell, I could imagine an "Red Flag" EO to seize firearms if you were involved in an outbreak of racism, islamaphobia, homophobia, misogyny, or any other newly declared mental illness.
Even if Harris didn't make the order, it's not impossible to suggest that the governors could try it.
It's not going to go over well by any stretch of the imagination, but I can't say it won't happen. I can't even say that the Senate would be relevant.
Fugg, I got it wrong. Thanks for the correction though.
That said, it does make me wonder how long the Civil War would've lasted without the income tax. Despite having the most factories and rail, the war lasted much longer than it should have due to Northern draftees being absolute shit marksmen. It's why Union veterans founded the National Rifle Association, to educate civilians on firearms and prevent another embarrassment like that again.
It's not really wrong because it proves your point even further.
Despite having the most factories and rail, the war lasted much longer than it should have due to Northern draftees being absolute shit marksmen.
I doubt that that had a significant effect. The rifles and maintenance they were using were still old imports from Prussia, or were cheap American goods produced with no sights whatsoever. Meanwhile, many of the Confederates were using Smoothbore muskets well into the war (although some units did this intentionally because smoothbores could be loaded with a kind of additional buck shot behind the primary round, making them additionally lethal at close quarters).
When you combine the fact that you have no sights, heavy smoke, difficult terrain, cheap weapons, not excellently maintained weapons, and an enemy who is fighting as much as possible under some kind of concealment whenever they can, no one is going to regularly hit anything.
Compare this to Battle of Königgrätz. Both armies were good shots and professional, but while the Austrians were using rifled muskets, the Prussians were using Breech-Locking rifles that were a kind of proto-bolt-action rifle (they cleverly sold all of their old muskets to the Americans to arm their troops with these). Their sheer rate of fire, (and expert use of long range artillery) made the battle decisive. Accuracy was not the major advantage, rate of fire was.
Similarly, the Battle of Shilo involved a single Union platoon that carried Henry rifles and the Confederates misinterpreted the size of the unit to be that of a brigade due to it's rate of fire, and had a hell of a time dislodging them with their own brigade. Again, the Henry rifles were a) not armed with smokeless ammunition, and b) had no sights. The unit was also under concealment. The given accuracy of either groups would have been shit, but the rate of fire from the Union platoon was utterly shocking, particularly in 1862 when the Confederates may not have known that the rifle even existed.
I just don't know anymore. We've seen a lot of executive fiats that are wildly unconstitutional that many people are still living under.
FDR literally rounded up Japanese people, confiscated their property, and put them in internment camps with an executive order. He criminalized the possession of gold and silver also with only an executive order.
Both were upheld by the Supreme Court. The later was regularly upheld by the Supreme Court on multiple cases well past FDR's term. Both involved federal felonies and mandatory prison sentences.
To this day, the internment ruling by the supreme court has not been overturned. The executive order simply stopped being executed. Gerald Ford de-criminalized private bullion ownership by a counter EO in 1974. For 41 years, you could be imprisoned for 10 years if you were caught selling gold coins without a licence, and for anything but the purpose of coin collection.
With The Great Reset planned, I could easily see a Harris administration invoking mandatory quarantine orders for outbreaks of Covid, or racism since that's a public health crisis too, as well as an executive ban on gold, silver, and crypto when they are trying to introduce a digital currency. Hell, I could imagine an "Red Flag" EO to seize firearms if you were involved in an outbreak of racism, islamaphobia, homophobia, misogyny, or any other newly declared mental illness.
Even if Harris didn't make the order, it's not impossible to suggest that the governors could try it.
It's not going to go over well by any stretch of the imagination, but I can't say it won't happen. I can't even say that the Senate would be relevant.
Remember when income tax was just a temporary measure to pay for World War I?
No. Because you're thinking of the Civil War.
Fugg, I got it wrong. Thanks for the correction though.
That said, it does make me wonder how long the Civil War would've lasted without the income tax. Despite having the most factories and rail, the war lasted much longer than it should have due to Northern draftees being absolute shit marksmen. It's why Union veterans founded the National Rifle Association, to educate civilians on firearms and prevent another embarrassment like that again.
It's not really wrong because it proves your point even further.
I doubt that that had a significant effect. The rifles and maintenance they were using were still old imports from Prussia, or were cheap American goods produced with no sights whatsoever. Meanwhile, many of the Confederates were using Smoothbore muskets well into the war (although some units did this intentionally because smoothbores could be loaded with a kind of additional buck shot behind the primary round, making them additionally lethal at close quarters).
When you combine the fact that you have no sights, heavy smoke, difficult terrain, cheap weapons, not excellently maintained weapons, and an enemy who is fighting as much as possible under some kind of concealment whenever they can, no one is going to regularly hit anything.
Compare this to Battle of Königgrätz. Both armies were good shots and professional, but while the Austrians were using rifled muskets, the Prussians were using Breech-Locking rifles that were a kind of proto-bolt-action rifle (they cleverly sold all of their old muskets to the Americans to arm their troops with these). Their sheer rate of fire, (and expert use of long range artillery) made the battle decisive. Accuracy was not the major advantage, rate of fire was.
Similarly, the Battle of Shilo involved a single Union platoon that carried Henry rifles and the Confederates misinterpreted the size of the unit to be that of a brigade due to it's rate of fire, and had a hell of a time dislodging them with their own brigade. Again, the Henry rifles were a) not armed with smokeless ammunition, and b) had no sights. The unit was also under concealment. The given accuracy of either groups would have been shit, but the rate of fire from the Union platoon was utterly shocking, particularly in 1862 when the Confederates may not have known that the rifle even existed.