Actually it is not, unless you take it out of context like you have.... Allow me to Quote Jefferson... "“[T]he laying of taxes is the power, and the general w

Actually it is not, unless you take it out of context like you have.... Allow me to Quote Jefferson... "“[T]he laying of taxes is the power, and the general welfare the purpose for which the power is to be exercised. They [Congress] are not to lay taxes ad libitum for any purpose they please; but only to pay the debts or provide for the welfare of the Union. In like manner, they are not to do anything they please to provide for the general welfare, but only to lay taxes for that purpose" Meaning to the founders that section was explicitly about collecting taxes and does not give wide over arching powers to legislate things about the "general welfare" of the population.