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Whatever it is will never be enough.

Yep, tax and spend liberals.

Because it is never based on reality or facts. If it were based on facts, they’d have to face the reality that the system is in serious trouble. And they have admit that they have failed.

As I've mentioned in related threads, the key question that patriots must start asking Constitution-ignoring "leaders" like Pelosi is the following. Simply put, how much should taxpayers pay Congress annually in order for Congress to perform its Article I, Section 8-limited power duties? This question is based on Justice John Marshall's official clarification that Congress is prohibited from laying taxes in the name of state power issues, issues such as retirement, healthcare, public schools, etc., which Congress has no Section 8 power to address.

"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.

More specifically, given that the plurality of clauses in Section 8 are defense related, and given that the Department of Defense (DoD) budget for 2011 was $600+ billion, I will generously round the DoD annual budget up to $1 trillion, but probably much less, as a rough estimate as to how much Section 8 should be costing taxpayers per year.

In other words, taxpayers should not be hearing about multi-trillion federal dollar budgets which the mainstream media, including Obama guard dog Fx News, is reporting in federal public policy discussions without mentioning Justice Marshall's clarification of Congress's limited power to lay taxes.