USAF? Is that not providing for the common defence? (sic)
Now you show me where it empowers the federal govt to force me to buy health care, or take my money and give it to others.
The dangerous thing about libs these days is they are so busy sticking it to the man they haven't noticed that the man is leaving, and taking his business elsewhere compliments of globalization. The problem just keeps getting worse, and nobody understands that it's the medication that's killing the patient.
even a blind pig occasionally finds a chestnut. You make my point and you dont even know it.
Your original post was that we get ouselves in trouble when we stray from the Constitution.
that is an originalist statement. You are fine to stray from the literal word to add powers you like, but when it is something you don't like, you are against it; then you go all Constitutional on us.
You pick and choose the places you think the Constitution can be stretched to suit your politics.
As anyone who watches the current court knows, these GOP justices -- claiming to be strict constructionists and not an activist court -- have declared unconstitutional more laws than any other court in our history.
Ditto with the class warfare protests, it is fine when you are laying it on, but the GOP screeches like a stuck blind pig, when someone says tax the rich.
In all the discussion these past two years about the growing debt, have you heard anyone say raise estate taxes once for every 100 times some GOPer says cut social security, eliminate Medicare. I dont think so. And a google search would support me.
And estate taxes are at their lowest level ever. you can substitute the top to marginal tax rates for estate taxes and identify a similar trend, though raising income taxes on the wealthy at least gets mentioned. and all this screeching goes on over trying to go back to the tax rates in place when the Clinton administration cut the debt, produced a surplus and saw it given away by Bush Cheney, who famously said those rate cuts were needed to give the surplus back.
well, guess what? That surplus is gone and that rational is dead along with it.
Pay your share, and acknowledge that our society and all its trappings, creates the environment in which you have prospered.
as to the original topic, that was a stroke of genius in comparing the EV haters to the homophobes.
As to the cite to the Volokh conspiracy blog on US Constitutional law, they are a well-known collection of libertarian lawyers. You could go to the Federalist Society and get a similar reading. I dont disagree that the USAF is Constitutional, but it isnt in the Constitution. Having it requires adapting the Constitution to current realities and our evolving nation. Ditto universal health care. We are not going back to the day of the country doctor being paid in chickens.
