Tag Archives : Enumerated Powers
How Should the Constitution Be Changed?
We could dramatically shrink the federal government.
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Two very tragic legal cases.
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Yes, the Federal Government Has a Broad Power to Tax, but that’s Different from Having a Green Light to Spend
’m not a lawyer, or an expert on the Constitution, though I sometimes play one on TV. But I can read, and I’ll agree with my friends on the left that the federal government has a broad power to tax. I wish the 16th Amendment had never been ratified, but its language gives the federal […]
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If Obamacare Is Constitutional, then Why Did the Founding Fathers Bother with a List of Enumerated Powers?
I think Obamacare is bad policy because it exacerbates the main problem with the current healthcare system, which is third-party payer. And as a public finance economist, I’m obviously not happy about the new taxes and additional spending in Obamacare. But those issues are temporarily on the back burner now that the Supreme Court is […]
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