For those who still need more evidence that the current state of government is nothing at all like what was intended by the creators of that government, I present the North Carolina Court System.

From the North Carolina Constitution:

Sec. 23. Revenue bills.

No laws shall be enacted to raise money on the credit of the State, or to pledge the faith of the State directly or indirectly for the payment of any debt, or to impose any tax upon the people of the State, or to allow the counties, cities, or towns to do so, unless the bill for the purpose shall have been read three several times in each house of the General Assembly and passed three several readings, which readings shall have been on three different days, and shall have been agreed to by each house respectively, and unless the yeas and nays on the second and third readings of the bill shall have been entered on the journal.

In other words, the General Assembly is the body of government that is to determine all rules regarding raising and spending all revenue.

From the North Carolina Supreme Court:

the North Carolina Supreme Court upheld most of a 2003 opinion by the state Court of Appeals and even expanded the list of civil penalties that should benefit public education, dipping into agencies from the Department of Transportation to the University of North Carolina system.

The justices also ruled that penalties for late payments and underpayments by taxpayers to the Department of Revenue should wind up with the schools. Those penalties alone generate an estimated $50 million to $70 million annually

In other words -- the North Carolina Court system will determine how much money will be spent on education.

So the North Carolina Supreme Court freely ignores the Constitution. And there is no one left to enforce it's provisions. Our Constitutional government is clearly and obviously lost.

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