Regarding so-called federal food stamp money, patriots are reminded of the following. The Constitution’s silence on this issue means that feeding the poor is uniquely a state power issue, not the business of the feds. This is evidenced by the following excerpts from the writings of previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court justices and a constitutional lawmaker.
“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.
"The power to regulate manufactures, not having been confided to congress, they have no more right to act upon it, than they have to interfere with the systems of education, the poor laws, or the road laws, of the states [emphasis added]. Congress is empowered to lay taxes for revenue, it is true; but there is no power to encourage, protect, or meddle with manufactures." —Joseph Story, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1, Commentaries on the Constitution 2
”... the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Federal Constitution, is in the States, and not in the Federal Government [emphases added].” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe, 1866. (See about middle of 3rd column.)
"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” — Justice Brandeis, Laboratories of democracy.
”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.
The problem is that the states rely on federal assistance to feed the poor because the unconstitutionally big, post-17th Amendment ratification federal government keeps stealing state revenues by means of unconstitutional federal taxes evidenced by the Gibbon v. Ogden excerpt above.
The bottom line is that crook Democratic and RINO federal lawmakers are stealing state revenues to buy the votes of food stamp recipients to help them stay in power imo.
"The “Holy Grail” of organized crime is to control government power to tax." —me
"The constitutionally undefined political parties are basically competing, corrupt voter unions, union dues paid by means of unconstitutional federal taxes.” —me
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most appropriations laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." —me
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.”
It’s borrowed money, ~$21 trillion.
“The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States”
The Founding Fathers never envisioned borrowing $21 trillion to fund a welfare state.
“The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States”
The Article IV, Section 3 Congressional “power to dispose of” is the Constitutional power behind federal welfare funding.
Congress disposes of its money (once yours) to the states and the states hand it out to individuals, families and social welfare institutions.
“Phrasal Verb: dispose of ....
“2. To give or transfer to someone else, especially permanently: She disposed of her estate among her heirs. He disposed of his memoirs to a research library.”
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/dispose+of
“unconstitutional federal taxes”
Congress has the power to tax, limited only by the Article I Section 9 proportionality requirement, which no longer applies to taxes on incomes (and may not apply at all since the proportionality requirement was meant to be absolute).
Congress might tax all real and personal property in the United States at 100% and that might meet the proportionality requirement.
The Constitution has serious defects.
The power to tax has always been in the Constitution:
“The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States”
I’ll leave a discussion of general for another time.
“The bottom line is that crook Democratic and RINO federal lawmakers are stealing state revenues to buy the votes of food stamp recipients to help them stay in power.”
100% on the Marx!