Posted on 06/30/2023 11:44:12 AM PDT by Eagle Forgotten
How about since 1860?
Lincoln started alot of this mess.
But Wilson really got it rolling, and FDR - over the top.
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxVfV5Lby3u-m51xWHvBGEs-vLeczntIIt
The president lost the power of impoundment in 1974.
“....
Impoundment is an act by a President of the United States of not spending money that has been appropriated by the U.S. Congress. Thomas Jefferson was the first president to exercise the power of impoundment in 1801. The power was available to all presidents up to and including Richard Nixon, and was regarded as a power inherent to the office. The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 was passed in response to perceived abuse of the power under President Nixon. The Act removed that power, and Train v. City of New York (whose facts predate the 1974 Act, but which was argued before the U.S. Supreme Court after its passage), closed potential loopholes in the 1974 Act. The president’s ability to indefinitely reject congressionally approved spending was thus removed.
.....”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impoundment_of_appropriated_funds
Thanks. I didn’t think that was a workable option.
Replies directed at me alone tend to be interpreted as being about me.
Commerce regulates far too much that should be left to the states. That said, there still has to be a tax collection function, even though the IRS should be slashed; there is still a small role for the Feds in legitimate interstate commerce; energy too should be largely left to the states with a little national security element.
I can’t find a reason for the Dept of Ed to continue doing anything.
Sorry, though oftentimes we all generalize from there. Going off on tangents, stream of thought, etc.
That was my point. Politicians can’t figure that out.
Who is “we”?
The little ingrate would learn what vested interests means. Congress refused to get rid of Section 230, and that involved only a little money passing under the table.
Yeh sure. 🙄
I loved the riverboat tour I took on Tangent Stream. :^)
Only 4? There has got to be dozens in just the first 100 days.
Please see my post #31.
Please see my post #31.
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