Billy_Kinetta
Paladin of the Lost Hour
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By their own funds, or charity. Not government redistributing other people's money.
What if the voters want a government food assistance program?
So long as voluntary, no problem. Stealing money from Peter to pay Paul, however, is simple theft, and what the voters want be damned. Let them amend the Constitution.
Congress has the authority to levy taxes ONLY for those purposes mandated to it by the Constitution, and as you know those purposes are quite limited.
They don't have to amend the Constitution. The food stamp program hasn't been ruled unconstitutional.
But it is. Charity at gunpoint is not within the Constitutional authority of the government.
It is the POPULAR answer-----in fact-----Congenital Liberal democrat that I am----
I have noted that charity at gunpoint is the SANDERS appeal and it works for him
Popularity is irrelevant. If popularity were the primary issue we would quite possibly have developed into a Christian theocracy. We did not.
The Constitution is written in stone, and is the beginning and end of all law in America. Any law that falls outside of it is invalid.