[Amendment10]

While the NEA is arguably a good idea, the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to tax and spend for anything like the NEA.

“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 until the states amend the Constitution to justify federal funding for something like the NEA, it’s got to go.

[socalgop]

What does the general welfare clause mean to you?