05-08-2008, 02:13 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Michael Tree
It does fit quite easily under the tax & spend clause:
"The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States"
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"If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions." - James Madison
The Constitution's General Welfare Clause has widely been seen as one limiting Congress' power to tax and spend rather than grant it sweeping powers.
Not that something as insignificant as The Constitution has ever gotten in the way of Congress.
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