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"across the board" is another catch phrase fed to wingnuts so that they don't have to actually think about what they are proposing to be cut.
How much of a percentage would have to be cut "across the board" to balance the budget wingnut?
We're talking about portions of the federal government that CAN be cut.
And what parts would those be specifically? Come on genius, show us that you know something.
Neither are within the Article 1, Section 8 scope of congressional power.
You're a fucking moron who wouldn't know the constitution if it bit him on the ass. From article 1 sec. 8...
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...To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
That pretty much covers every friggin' public spending law that Congress could pass doesn't it shit for brains? You don't love the Constitution. You love some lie about the constitution that has been force fed into your inadaquate brain.
"across the board" is another catch phrase fed to wingnuts so that they don't have to actually think about what they are proposing to be cut.
How much of a percentage would have to be cut "across the board" to balance the budget wingnut?
Cuts "across the board" are a lie. You can't cut our interest payments for the debt incurred under republican presidents
Yes, Captain Obvious.
We're talking about portions of the federal government that CAN be cut.
Shouldn't you be getting ready for 6th period P.E. or something...
"across the board" is another catch phrase fed to wingnuts so that they don't have to actually think about what they are proposing to be cut.
How much of a percentage would have to be cut "across the board" to balance the budget wingnut?
about a 40% cut, 'across the board'
We're talking about portions of the federal government that CAN be cut.
And what parts would those be specifically? Come on genius, show us that you know something.
We're talking about portions of the federal government that CAN be cut.
And what parts would those be specifically? Come on genius, show us that you know something.
It can all be cut you twit.
Cuts "across the board" are a lie. You can't cut our interest payments for the debt incurred under republican presidents
"across the board" is another catch phrase fed to wingnuts so that they don't have to actually think about what they are proposing to be cut.
How much of a percentage would have to be cut "across the board" to balance the budget wingnut?
about a 40% cut, 'across the board'
So you'd cut the military in almost 1/2?
Way to surrender to the terrorists, wingnut!!
The goal should be to make about 1,000,000 civilian, federal employees unemployed and their jobs eliminated.
Neither are within the Article 1, Section 8 scope of congressional power.
You're a fucking moron who wouldn't know the constitution if it bit him on the ass. From article 1 sec. 8...
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...To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
That pretty much covers every friggin' public spending law that Congress could pass doesn't it shit for brains? You don't love the Constitution. You love some lie about the constitution that has been force fed into your inadaquate brain.
"Of the United States"... AKA the union... not for the things left for the states and not for individuals... but nice try...
Hence why the specific enumerated things government has permission to do or pay for are specifically listed...
Lest we forget... "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.
in United States v. Butler. There, the Court agreed with Justice Story's construction, holding the power to tax and spend is an independent power; that is, the General Welfare Clause gives Congress power it might not derive anywhere else. However, the Court did limit the power to spending for matters affecting only the national welfare. The Court wrote:
[T]he [General Welfare] clause confers a power separate and distinct from those later enumerated, is not restricted in meaning by the grant of them, and Congress consequently has a substantive power to tax and to appropriate, limited only by the requirement that it shall be exercised to provide for the general welfare of the United States. It results that the power of Congress to authorize expenditure of public moneys for public purposes is not limited by the direct grants of legislative power found in the Constitution. But the adoption of the broader construction leaves the power to spend subject to limitations. [T]he powers of taxation and appropriation extend only to matters of national, as distinguished from local, welfare.
The tax imposed in Butler was nevertheless held unconstitutional as a violation of the Tenth Amendment reservation of power to the states.
Shortly after Butler, in Helvering v. Davis,[22] the Supreme Court interpreted the clause even more expansively, conferring upon Congress a plenary power to impose taxes and to spend money for the general welfare subject almost entirely to its own discretion. Even more recently, the Court has included the power to indirectly coerce the states into adopting national standards by threatening to withhold federal funds in South Dakota v. Dole.[15]
"across the board" is another catch phrase fed to wingnuts so that they don't have to actually think about what they are proposing to be cut.
How much of a percentage would have to be cut "across the board" to balance the budget wingnut?
about a 40% cut, 'across the board'
We're talking about portions of the federal government that CAN be cut.
And what parts would those be specifically? Come on genius, show us that you know something.
You think it takes a genius to figure this out?
Well, golly, I'm not sure I could do that.....10% of a $5 Trillion/year budget?
10% from DOD
10% from DOI
10% from DOE
10% from DOS....
Are you able to pick up on the pattern yet?
We're talking about portions of the federal government that CAN be cut.
And what parts would those be specifically? Come on genius, show us that you know something.
You think it takes a genius to figure this out?
Well, golly, I'm not sure I could do that.....10% of a $5 Trillion/year budget?
10% from DOD
10% from DOI
10% from DOE
10% from DOS....
Are you able to pick up on the pattern yet?
How much money would be saved?
"across the board" is another catch phrase fed to wingnuts so that they don't have to actually think about what they are proposing to be cut.
How much of a percentage would have to be cut "across the board" to balance the budget wingnut?
about a 40% cut, 'across the board'