Well, it's not even a metric, so that's the first issue. Second, I'm not a utilitarian. But the issue with it, for me, lies in the ambiguity of what "general w

Well, it's not even a metric, so that's the first issue. Second, I'm not a utilitarian. But the issue with it, for me, lies in the ambiguity of what "general welfare" means. If you have a bunch of people driving cars, building stupid highways might promote the general welfare even though we should build bike paths and sidewalks instead.