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Trusting 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
by tastyfreeze 6y ago
Trusting 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...