None of these programs are in Article I, Section 8, nor in any Amendment.
Get govt out of all wealth-transfer activities.
Student loans (especially) should be entirely privately-sourced. Force the schools to underwrite the loans from their endowments.
“Student loans (especially) should be entirely privately-sourced.”
Feel free to try to make that happen.
“Force the schools to underwrite the loans from their endowments.”
Many private schools have such large endowments they could eliminate tuition.
State universities don’t generally have huge endowments.
“None of these programs are in Article I, Section 8, nor in any Amendment.”
One could argue that the PPACA was “necessary and proper” to respond to the problems of expensive drugs caused by the power of “securing [by patent] for limited times to...inventors the exclusive right to their...discoveries.”
San Francisco is a leading drug development center. Can you name its Congresswoman who rammed the PPACA through?
The enumerated powers themselves such as creating patents don’t have to be exercised in a “necessary and proper” fashion, such as requiring patented drugs to be individually affordable.
Yup, you are losing freedom, your money and the country you probably love over a bunch of chemicals!
ARTICLE IV. SECTION 3. paragraph 2:
“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...”