"The project also received $1.6 billion in taxpayer loan guarantees, and $600 million in federal tax credits [emphasis added], to reduce carbon emissions by 400,000 tons of carbon-dioxide emissions per year."
While federal taxpayer investment in energy is arguably a good idea, it remains that the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to tax and spend for such a purpose imo.
“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.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
So patriots need to support Pres. Trump to either put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxation for energy purposes, or work with the states and Congress to successfully propose an energy amendment to the Constitution imo.
"The States should be left to do whatever acts they can do as well as the General Government." --Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, 1790.
"In every event, I would rather construe so narrowly as to oblige the nation to amend, and thus declare what powers they would agree to yield, than too broadly, and indeed, so broadly as to enable the executive and the Senate to do things which the Constitution forbids." --Thomas Jefferson: The Anas, 1793.
Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!
Remember in November ’18 !
Since Trump entered the ’16 presidential race too late for patriots to make sure that there were state sovereignty-respecting candidates on the primary ballots, patriots need make sure that such candidates are on the ’18 primary ballots so that they can be elected to support Trump in draining the unconstitutionally big federal government swamp.
Such a Congress will also be able to finish draining the swamp with respect to getting the remaining state sovereignty-ignoring, activist justices off of the bench.
Noting that the primaries start in Iowa and New Hampshire in February ‘18, patriots need to challenge candidates for federal office in the following way.
Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.
Patriots also need to find candidates that are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed above.
The ‘planned NOT parenthood’ assclowns are already starting in NV to try to get Dean Heller voted out. He ain’t my favorite but he’s a whole bunch better than any can’t-i-date tbey’ll put forward. Bad enough that cat mantos gets to play puppet for the thankfully retired hairy screed. NV has already embarrassed itself enough.
But, but.... Interstate Commerce!