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Sen. Mitch McConnell called it a “historic rescue package,” but if you ask me, it’s more like tossing a drowning man a Lifesavers candy tied to dental floss.
So, while you try to figure out how to spend your paltry $600, consider some of the other folks who will be getting a big fat unconstitutional handout from Uncle Sam thanks to the funding included in this massive omnibus spending bill.
The coronavirus relief provisions do include $13 billion for food aid to increase the maximum unconstitutional Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefit by 15 percent. I suppose that’s a benefit to Main Street.
Meanwhile, the airlines will get yet another unconstitutional bailout of $15 billion. That’s on top of the $25 billion US air carriers got in the CARES Act.
There is more transportation money in the bill. The legislation unconstitutionally allocated $14 billion for transit systems and $10 billion for state highways. This seems a little silly given that we’re all supposed to stay home.
The bill includes $82 billion in unconstitutional education funding, including more than $54 billion for public K-12 schools and nearly $23 billion for higher education. Too bad a lot of kids around the country aren’t allowed to go to school.
There was $7 billion included in the bill to fund unconstitutional expansions in broadband access.
Now, I would argue that most of this spending is only peripherally related to the pandemic and it really more of a cash cow for various special interests. But you can at least argue that most of the funding I’ve mentioned so far is at least tangentially beneficial to average Americans. But if you do the math, you will quickly realize we’re nowhere close to $900 billion. Where is the rest of the money going? God only knows. But I am willing to bet that more than $600 will be going into the pockets of various Wall Street interests.
Unconstitutional
If you haven’t gotten the point already, virtually all of this spending is unconstitutional. Many would undoubtedly argue with me, citing the general welfare clause. Yes, it exists. But it is not a blank check empowering Congress to spend money on whatever it pleases. As James Madison asserted, to take the clause in a “literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.”
Broadly speaking, promoting the general welfare is a legitimate role of the federal government, but it can only do so within the scope of the specific powers delegated to it. Pro-ratification essayist “Cassius” wrote an article published in the Virginia Independent Chronicle addressed directly to Richard Henry Lee asserting that the general welfare clause was “not a power coextensive with every possible object of human legislation.”
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Interpretation. Correct?
So, while you try to figure out how to spend your paltry $600, consider some of the other folks who will be getting a big fat unconstitutional handout from Uncle Sam thanks to the funding included in this massive omnibus spending bill.
The coronavirus relief provisions do include $13 billion for food aid to increase the maximum unconstitutional Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefit by 15 percent. I suppose that’s a benefit to Main Street.
Meanwhile, the airlines will get yet another unconstitutional bailout of $15 billion. That’s on top of the $25 billion US air carriers got in the CARES Act.
There is more transportation money in the bill. The legislation unconstitutionally allocated $14 billion for transit systems and $10 billion for state highways. This seems a little silly given that we’re all supposed to stay home.
The bill includes $82 billion in unconstitutional education funding, including more than $54 billion for public K-12 schools and nearly $23 billion for higher education. Too bad a lot of kids around the country aren’t allowed to go to school.
There was $7 billion included in the bill to fund unconstitutional expansions in broadband access.
Now, I would argue that most of this spending is only peripherally related to the pandemic and it really more of a cash cow for various special interests. But you can at least argue that most of the funding I’ve mentioned so far is at least tangentially beneficial to average Americans. But if you do the math, you will quickly realize we’re nowhere close to $900 billion. Where is the rest of the money going? God only knows. But I am willing to bet that more than $600 will be going into the pockets of various Wall Street interests.
Unconstitutional
If you haven’t gotten the point already, virtually all of this spending is unconstitutional. Many would undoubtedly argue with me, citing the general welfare clause. Yes, it exists. But it is not a blank check empowering Congress to spend money on whatever it pleases. As James Madison asserted, to take the clause in a “literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.”
Broadly speaking, promoting the general welfare is a legitimate role of the federal government, but it can only do so within the scope of the specific powers delegated to it. Pro-ratification essayist “Cassius” wrote an article published in the Virginia Independent Chronicle addressed directly to Richard Henry Lee asserting that the general welfare clause was “not a power coextensive with every possible object of human legislation.”
You will find those powers in Article 1 Sec. 8 of the Constitution. With a quick perusal, you will find not find any of this coronavirus funding authorized.
The Coronavirus Stimulus Bill is Filled with Unconstitutional Programs | Mike Maharrey | Tenth Amendment Center
If you haven't gotten the point already, virtually all of this spending is unconstitutional. Many would undoubtedly argue with me, citing the general welfare clause. Yes, it exists. But it is not a blank check empowering Congress to spend money on whatever it pleases.
tenthamendmentcenter.com
Interpretation. Correct?
