One of the reasons the Founders dropped the Articles of Confederation and started anew with a constitution was precisely because the national government was unworkable. Back then, it was unworkable because it did not have enough authority to even fund itself. Today, the national government is unworkable, albeit for very different reasons, and prudence demands we reform it. That said, to pretend we are upholding the Constitution when the federal government is funding program after program that operates outside the constitutional structure, and then funding it with confiscatory taxes and tax rates and unsustainable borrowing and monetizing, is truly absurd. There needs to be a constitutional fix to a federal system that is out of kilter and clearly does not function as the Framers intended. Using the amendment process to address an out-of-control and broken federal system is precisely what the Framers would have expected. To argue that somehow containing and restraining the federal Leviathan via a constitutionally prescribed amendment process runs counter to our heritage and has it completely backwards. Is there a perfect answer to this? No. But the status quo under these circumstances is neither a prudent nor conservative approach.
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