Well, here's what Congress wrote into the start of the Food Stamp Act....
"It is declared to be the policy of Congress, in order to promote the general welfare, to safeguard the health and well-being of the Nation’s population by raising levels of nutrition among low-income households. Congress finds that the limited food purchasing power of low-income households contributes to hunger and malnutrition among members of such households. Congress further finds that increased utilization of food in establishing and maintaining adequate national levels of nutrition will promote the distribution in a beneficial manner of the Nation’s agricultural abundance and will strengthen the Nation’s agricultural economy, as well as result in more orderly marketing and distribution of foods. To alleviate such hunger and malnutrition, a supplemental nutrition assistance program is herein authorized which will permit low-income households to obtain a more nutritious diet through normal channels of trade by increasing food purchasing power for all eligible households who apply for participation."
So apparently Congress is citing the General Welfare clause. And apparently the judicial system, which is the only authority the constitution gives power to interpret the constitution, is either okay with that citation of authority, or nobody has challenged it.
I would suspect that if Congress ever adopted a guaranteed income program, that they would use similar justification.
Right.
They'd invent it (or pull it out of their @$$), just like they did with the Food Stamp Act. That so-called "general welfare clause" is in the Preamble to the Constitution ... a plain reading of the text shows that it does not confer any power on any branch of the government ... congressional or judicial sophistry to the contrary notwithstanding.
. And apparently the judicial system, which is the only authority the constitution gives power to interpret the constitution,
False ... but the courts certainly want you to think that.
It's long past time for We, the People to recover our Constitution from the power-crazed petty tyrants that have usurped it.
Why anyone on a supposedly conservative website would be making excuses for power-usurping socialists eludes me...