The capacity to read alludes many here.
As the desert said to the grain of sand.
Indeed, the Constitution does not explicitly lay out the right to create programs to create a welfare state
Then, you agree with me. Thanks.
However, what Indy cited clearly does allow Congress to levy taxes to pay for general welfare.
Yes... and what did I say about that?
The question is what is general welfare?
Except that you have failed to define what general welfare is.
As I stated:
That's found in the remaining powers goven to congress by article 1 section 8, as are the powers given to congress regarding 'the common defense'.
The powers to create legislation pursuant to provbiding for the 'general welfare':
-To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
-To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;
-To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;
-To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;
-To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;
-To establish post offices and post roads;
-To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
-To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;
The powers pursuant to 'the common denese':
-To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;
-To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;
-To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;
-To provide and maintain a navy;
-To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;
-To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;
-To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
-To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings;--
But you are clearly displaying double standards.
Hardly.
The Constitution strictly prohibits funding in excess of two years for a standing army. We have done this so many times that no one can keep track.
Please cite a single instance of this.
And, even then. all you're doing is arguing that these fundings are unconstitutional as well. Good for you! How does that affect the issue at hand?
And you ignored this:
"To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers,"
Yes... and for this claue to have any meaning, the laws must be pursuant to a power granted by the Constitition -- a power that doesnt exist, rendering moot any citation of the elastic clause.
Under your argument, the only powers necessary in Article I Section 8 are the first and the last -- and yet. there are 16 others.
Why do you suppose that is, if they are not there to define the powers of Congress pursuant to 'providing for the common defense and general welfare'
As the power to provide for general welfare is explicitly stated...
No... the power to TAX is explicitly stated.
Maybe he'll start taking you serious when you stop using such obvious dishonest fabrications?
Aside foirm the fact that you cannot show anything that I have 'fabricated'...
I guess he shant take you, or himself, seriously.
