Posted on 06/18/2016 5:40:00 PM PDT by ErikJohnsky
Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Wis., in February. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) A Congresswoman who is “sick and tired” of drug testing welfare recipients has introduced a bill in Congress that would subject the rich to many of those same requirements.
Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Wis., unveiled Thursday the Top 1% Accountability Act, which would require those claiming itemized deductions of more than $150,000 on their tax returns to submit to drug tests or file for less generous tax deductions.
The proposal is a shot across the bow at Republican governors in states, including Moore’s home state of Wisconsin, that require the recipients of certain welfare benefit programs to be drug tested in order to remain eligible to receive assistance.
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The rich need to get a grip on the idea that they’re probably paying too much taxes anyway. This is evidenced by the following clarification by a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices.
These justices noted that Congress is prohibited from appropriating taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
“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.
In fact, note that one of the very few powers that the Founding States actually delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution to tax and spend for concerning domestic policy issues is the US Mail Service (1.8.7).
In other words, patriots can bet that most other federal domestic spending programs are unconstitutional and be right most of the time.
Remember in November !
Patriots need to support Trump by also electing a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to support Trump’s vision for making America great again for everybody, including putting a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes.
Note that such a Congress will also probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
Well, I tend to sorta, kinda agree with that, except for the unfortunate fact that I know damned well the program is corrupt as hell and a large amount of my (and yours) tax dollars are going to purchase exotic foods that even I, as the taxpayer, cannot afford or to purchase drugs to further the habits of those addicted, or to gain cash for use in gambling casinos or sold to nefarious person for pennies on the dollar, again to gain things that the program was never intended to provide.
Republican governors pushing this rule have complete hatred and disdain of the US Constitution...
Can you show me that portion of the US Constitution where it says that any citizen will be given money, without accountability, taken from my tax dollars, the public funds, and given to anyone simply because they claim they have a need, not to mention the muslim pukes that have invaded and are given money by the fistful by barky, simply because, well...just because, I guess.
Welfare of any type should be tightly controlled and the expenditures of public funds for it should be accounted for...further, those receiving it should be citizens that can prove they have a need and that they are using and expending those funds in a responsible manner, and it should be temporary, not a damned lifestyle.
I understand your sentiment. But the 4th amendment of the Constitution contradicts that. I guess you are advocating the repeal of the 4th amendment of the US Constitution.
So should everyone else receiving public funds from the President on down.
just cut off all welfare...no more problems..
I want all federal office-holders to be drug tested before they receive their regular paychecks. This is due to the stupid actions and laws they’re creating; they must be high on drugs to act the way they do, and taxpayers need these office-holders off the drugs now!
When libs talk about “the rich”, they never seem to include entertainers or sports celebrities. And when they talk about polluters and CO2 producers, they only mention American businesses. Can it be that all of these complaints are really just targeting capitalists? And if that’s the case, what are their motives?
This notion can spring ONLY from the premise that all the money earned and subject to taxation by the ‘wealthy’ belongs, in the libtard mind, to the government.
And, THAT, folks, is the foundational delusion, the quicksand, on which liberalism is based.
Proof that liberalism is a mental disease.
Politicians should have to pass a blood test before they
are sworn in, and every 60 days in office...that would be
fair.
I knew she was Black before I looked.
Sounds like a good idea maybe that is why so many wealthy people are voting for Hillary.
The difference is the rich person is paying for their own drugs and the welfare recipient is not. Also the rich can pay for their own rehab and medical bills.
Bingo!! How much of the money a person earned that they get to keep, vs a handout for non-productivity.
The rest of the discussion is noise.
I say we immediately start monthly RANDOM drug testing all the "Lawmakers", lawyer politicians, the Senate, Congress and who ever is in the Oval Office.
It may be a person’s constitutional right to do drugs, but not to have taxpayers pay for them.
Oh yea let’s do this and let’s drug test EVERYONE that has a government job.... President all the way to dog catcher....
100%
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