To: ml/nj
"Advance appropriations" are unconstitutional. No Congress can bind a future Congress to spend money they do not themselves vote to spend.Hey do you happen to know the exact language in the constitution that says that?
I am not challenging you -- just curious.
12 posted on
03/05/2011 1:00:48 PM PST by
Semper911
(When you want to rob Peter to pay Paul, you'll always have the support of Paul.)
To: Semper911
It's just common sense. Otherwise any one Congress could effectively amend the Constitution. This is why every Congress has to vote on appropriations. Any Congress that wanted to could effectively end Social Security by refusing to appropriate money for it. (I'm pretty sure that this was how the war in Viet Nam was ended.)
ML/NJ
19 posted on
03/05/2011 1:56:35 PM PST by
ml/nj
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