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Below are our Constitution's 18 enumerated powers given from the consent of the governed. Ask yourself "How has the government grown to be able to now do anything it wants to do"? Below are the Article I Section 8 congressional enumerated powers:

1. Lay and collect taxes but only for 3 purposes: to repay our debts, provide national defense, and for a purpose of general welfare ( to benefit all the states simultaneously, not for a single state or subset of individual people, not to take away your freedom to make your own choices, and definately not to redistribute your tax dollars to enrich others)2. Borrow money3. Regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes4. Naturalization5. Coin money6. Punish counterfeiting7. Establish Post Offices and post Roads8. Promote Science and Arts with copyrights9. Create court system10. Define and punish piracies and felonies11. Declare war12. Create/support Army13. And navy14. Rules for military15. Call forth Militia16. Organize and arm Militia17. Create District of Columbia (10 sq miles)18. Make laws Necessary and Proper to carryout previous 17 enumerated powers

James Madison warns us about tax spending for general welfare!

"If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their own hands; they may appoint teachers in every State, county and parish and pay them out of their public treasury; they may take into their own hands the education of children, establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union; they may assume the provision of the poor; they may undertake the regulation of all roads other than post roads; in short, every thing, from the highest object of state legislation down to the most minute object of police, would be thrown under the power of Congress...Were the power of Congress to be established in the latitutde contended for, it would subvert the very foundations, and transmute the very nature of the limited Government established by the people of America."
James Madison
"Consider for a monent the immeasurable difference between the Constitution limited in its powers to the enumerated objects, and expounded as it would be by the import claimed for the phraseology in question. The difference is equivalent to two Constitutions, of characters essentially contrasted with each other--the one possessing powers confined to certain specified cases, the other extended to all cases whatsoever;... Can less be said...than that it is impossible that such a Constitution as the latter would have been recommended to the States by all the members of that body whose name were subscribed to the instrument?...Is it credible that such a power would have been unnoticed and un opposed in the Federal Convention? In the State Conventions, which contended for, and proposed restrictive and explanatory amendments? And in the Congress of 1789, which recommended so many of these amendments? A power to impose unlimited taxes for unlimited purposes could never have escaped...those public bodies. Constitution is a limited one, possessing no power not actually given, and carrying on the face of it a distrust of power beyond the distrust indicated by the ordinary forms of free Government"
James Madison
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