What Senator Graham is wrongly ignoring concerning Obamacare, for example, is the following. Given the federal Constitution is silent about public healthcare, the 10th Amendment automatically reserves government power to regulate and lay taxes for healthcare to the states, not the Oval Office and Congress.
The way that RINO Graham and Democrats are perverting constitutional limits on Congress's powers got started as follows. Alexander Hamilton, appointed by President Washington as the first Treasury Secretary, wanted a national bank really, really bad. But Hamilton's problem was that the Founding States had rejected the idea of giving banking powers to the federal government at the constitutional convention. Jefferson had noted this as follows.
"It is known that the very power now proposed as a means was rejected as an end by the Convention which formed the Constitution. A proposition was made to them to authorize Congress to open canals, and an amendatory one to empower them to incorporate. But the whole was rejected (emphasis added), and one of the reasons for rejection urged in debate was, that then they would have a power to erect a bank (emphasis added), which would render the great cities, where there were prejudices and jealousies on the subject, adverse to the reception of the Constitution." --Jefferson's Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank : 1791
But the lack of express constitutional authorization for a national bank didn't stop slick Hamilton, a signer of the Constitution, from "finding" banking powers in the Constitution; after all, what's a signature worth? So despite Jefferson pointing out that the Founding States had rejected a national bank, pro-big federal government Hamilton argued that a national bank was IMPLIED by the general welfare clause (Article I, Section 8, Clause 1).
However, also included in the points which Jefferson argued against Hamilton's perversely wide interpretation of the general welfare clause was this. Jefferson had clearly expressed the Founder's reasoning behind the general welfare clause as evidenced by the following excerpt, something that you'll never hear from RINOs like Graham or Constitution-ignoring Democrats.
1. To lay taxes to provide for the general welfare of the United States, that is to say, "to lay taxes for the purpose of providing for the general welfare." For the laying of taxes is the power, and the general welfare thepurpose for which the power is to be exercised. They 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. To consider the latter phrase, not as describing the purpose of the first, but as giving a distinct and independent power to do any act they please, which might be for the good of the Union, would render all the preceding and subsequent enumerations of power completely useless.
It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and, as they would be the sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please."
And as evidenced by our national deficit from hell, corrupt Democrats and RINOs are now running with Hamilton's torch of general welfare clause perversions, continually raising (lowering?) Hamilton's bar by unashamedly concocting all kinds of constitutionally indefensible excuses to tax and spend the people's hard earned dollars in the name of the general welfare clause.
However, the main problem with the federal government is actually not Congress's perversions of the general welfare clause. The problem with the government, IMO, is the people. Please consider the following.
What's going on is that citizens have evidently foolishly not been teaching their children the Constitution and its history for many generations, particularly the enumerated constitutional principle of state sovereignty evidenced by the 10th Amendment. Consequently, state sovereignty-ignorant voters have been electing lawmakers to both the state legislatures and the federal senate who are as state sovereignty-impaired as the voters are. So these lawmakers have not been doing their jobs to protect state sovereignty by protecting citizens from illegal federal taxes and unconstitutional federal government interference in their lives as evidenced by the threat of Obamacare. And citizens can't stop Congress because citizens don't know the federal Constitution.
Again, thanks to Constitution-ignoring RINOs like Graham and Democrats, and yes, including state sovereignty-ignorant Republican lawmakers too, Hamilton's torch of general welfare clause perversions is now shining brighter than ever.
Finally, the following link should help give people a better idea how state sovereignty-ignorant voters have shot themselves in the foot with big, corrupt federal government as a consequence of the ill-conceived, anti-state sovereignty 16th and 17th Amendments.
What Senator Graham is wrongly ignoring concerning Obamacare, for example, is the following. Given the federal Constitution is silent about public healthcare, the 10th Amendment automatically reserves government power to regulate and lay taxes for healthcare to the states, not the Oval Office and Congress.
The way that RINO Graham and Democrats are perverting constitutional limits on Congress's powers got started as follows. Alexander Hamilton, appointed by President Washington as the first Treasury Secretary, wanted a national bank really, really bad. But Hamilton's problem was that the Founding States had rejected the idea of giving banking powers to the federal government at the constitutional convention. Jefferson had noted this as follows.
But the lack of express constitutional authorization for a national bank didn't stop slick Hamilton, a signer of the Constitution, from "finding" banking powers in the Constitution; after all, what's a signature worth? So despite Jefferson pointing out that the Founding States had rejected a national bank, pro-big federal government Hamilton argued that a national bank was IMPLIED by the general welfare clause (Article I, Section 8, Clause 1).
However, also included in the points which Jefferson argued against Hamilton's perversely wide interpretation of the general welfare clause was this. Jefferson had clearly expressed the Founder's reasoning behind the general welfare clause as evidenced by the following excerpt, something that you'll never hear from RINOs like Graham or Constitution-ignoring Democrats.
And as evidenced by our national deficit from hell, corrupt Democrats and RINOs are now running with Hamilton's torch of general welfare clause perversions, continually raising (lowering?) Hamilton's bar by unashamedly concocting all kinds of constitutionally indefensible excuses to tax and spend the people's hard earned dollars in the name of the general welfare clause.
However, the main problem with the federal government is actually not Congress's perversions of the general welfare clause. The problem with the government, IMO, is the people. Please consider the following.
What's going on is that citizens have evidently foolishly not been teaching their children the Constitution and its history for many generations, particularly the enumerated constitutional principle of state sovereignty evidenced by the 10th Amendment. Consequently, state sovereignty-ignorant voters have been electing lawmakers to both the state legislatures and the federal senate who are as state sovereignty-impaired as the voters are. So these lawmakers have not been doing their jobs to protect state sovereignty by protecting citizens from illegal federal taxes and unconstitutional federal government interference in their lives as evidenced by the threat of Obamacare. And citizens can't stop Congress because citizens don't know the federal Constitution.
Again, thanks to Constitution-ignoring RINOs like Graham and Democrats, and yes, including state sovereignty-ignorant Republican lawmakers too, Hamilton's torch of general welfare clause perversions is now shining brighter than ever.
Finally, the following link should help give people a better idea how state sovereignty-ignorant voters have shot themselves in the foot with big, corrupt federal government as a consequence of the ill-conceived, anti-state sovereignty 16th and 17th Amendments.