The Forgotten Amendment

The most underappreciated amendment in the Constitution must be the poor old 10th amendment. Everyone ignores it and no one pays attention to it. It reads:

"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."

So how do we get a Department of Education with a massive $56 billion federal budget. There is no Constitutional justification for the Federal government to be in the education business. This is a power not delegated to the federal government. The deficit could be closed by $56 billion. This is not because I don't care about education... it's that the schools are run by the towns are overseen by the states. What value does the Federal government add? What do they do with the $56 billion? There are approximately 130 million taxpayers. That would be an average of $430 per taxpayer. Can I have my money back?

The Department of Education is only one of many examples where the 10th amendment is ignored.