Mitch Daniels: Sequestration Is a Bad Idea

Newsmax ^ | 31 Oct 13 | John Gizzi

[Theodore R.]

Republican primary voters surely make poor candidate selections.

[AdaGray]

They’re so annoying, aren’t they. Why, without them we might be lucky enough to even have Karl Rove as a candidate.

[Amendment10]

Given Mr. Daniels' likely indoctrination in law school, it wouldn't surprise me if he is oblivious to Congress's limited power to lay taxes.

More specifically, given the remote possibility that some freepers aren't aware of this, Justice John Marshall had officially clarified that Congress is prohibited from laying taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue which Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.

"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." --Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

So the sequester has actually cut spending for a bunch of federal spending programs that corrupt Congress never had the constitutional authority to establish in the first place.

In fact, one of the very few federal government services that Congress actually has the constitutional authority to establish, which citizens may be tangibly affected by concerning the sequester, is temporary disruption of US mail services. This is evidenced by the Constitution's Clause 7 of Section 8 of Article I.