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The federal government absolutely has more power than was intended. The constitution only allows the federal government to do very specific things. This inclu
by tastyfreeze 6y ago
The federal government absolutely has more power than was intended. The constitution only allows the federal government to do very specific things. This includes the power to coin money, to regulate commerce, to declare war, to raise and maintain armed forces, and to establish a Post Office. Everything else is left to the states.
How many powers does the federal government have that are above those enumerated powers? The government we have is not what the constitution defines. It is what the constitution was designed to prevent. But, we have slowly marched towards a central government that the founders feared and warned needed to be protected against. A central government has a much higher risk of tyrannical control.
- michaelmrose 6y ago99% of the Democrats and 98% of the republicans including present leadership disagree with your assessment. If your position weakens any further it wont even have one seat in congress. In a democracy a position that virtually nobody cares for is dead.
- tastyfreeze 6y agoTrusting the people to hold the government to the Constitution may have been the fatal flaw. I know that being a Constitutional idealist is a weak position. I feel that is very unfortunate. The Constitution was intended to protect against human natures of avarice and corruption and limit to paths to tyrannical government. Every time the Constitution is weakened the paths to corruption and tyranny are widened.
- michaelmrose 6y agoAllowing a minority of welfare states to extract the money and blood of the united states while voting in their representative to oversee the extraction literally weakens the constitutional protections afforded to everyone as we have seen in the last 20 years.
- tastyfreeze 6y agoWouldn't an appropriate response to welfare bleeding the coffers be to stop the welfare? It obviously cannot be controlled. edit: removed "properly" as I don't think there is a proper way to control welfare.
- tastyfreeze 6y agoThread is dead but I want to add that it isn't a minority of welfare states. There are only 11 states that pay more in federal taxes than they spend in federal benefits. https://www.businessinsider.com/federal-taxes-federal-services-difference-by-state-2019-1 https://www.businessinsider.com/federal-taxes-federal-servic...