Art 1 sec 8 has 17 Federal job duties they are allowed to do... Everything else is prohibited.
Paying for your medical bills and providing income “security” are NOT on that list. Fully some 70% of what the FedGov does is not on that list. Only through extreme abuse of the Commerce Clause do they even attempt legitimacy however wrong they are.
We could run the whole government on less than $500B if they stuck to just what they are contractually obligated to do.
“Art 1 sec 8 has 17 Federal job duties they are allowed to do... Everything else is prohibited.”
That is incorrect.
“ARTICLE IV....Section 3....The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States...”
If the US government takes $10,000 from you via income taxation, that $10,000 becomes US property. The Congress can toss the $10,000 into a Waste Management truck or give it to a relative of the binman who works the back of the truck.
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; - https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-1/section-8/
Then there is the interpretation of general Welfare:
With respect to the meaning of “the general welfare” the pages of The Federalist itself disclose a sharp divergence of views between its two principal authors. Hamilton adopted the literal, broad meaning of the clause;608 Madison contended that the powers of taxation and appropriation of the proposed government should be regarded as merely instrumental to its remaining powers; in other words, as little more than a power of self-support.609 From early times, Congress has acted upon Hamilton’s interpretation. Appropriations for subsidies610 and for an ever-increasing variety of “internal improvements”611 constructed by the Federal Government, had their beginnings in the administrations of Washington and Jefferson.612 Since 1914, federal grants-in-aid, which are sums of money apportioned among the states for particular uses, often conditioned upon the duplication of the sums by the recipient state, and upon observance of stipulated restrictions as to their use, have become commonplace.in details): - https://law.justia.com/constitution/us/article-1/26-spending-for-the-general-welfare.html