Replies to post #197091 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[fastlizzy]

Who is your favorite billionaire?

[StephanieVanbryce]

That's what I figured.

Includes Projections


This data is from the Congressional Budget Office and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Its significance is not partisan (who's "to blame" for the deficit) but intellectual. It demonstrates the utter incoherence of being very concerned about a structural federal deficit but ruling out of consideration the policy that was largest single contributor to that deficit, namely the Bush-era tax cuts.

and THIS is WHAT CAUSED our Deficit in a GRAPH so ALL can see and understand.

[StephanieVanbryce]

Take a Good Hard Look__

[StephanieVanbryce]

AND, you do not seem to be aware of the fact that by our constitution CONGRESS has the power to spend . .NOT the President.


ARTICLE I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the Constitution, Under Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the Constitution, Congress is granted the power to lay and collect taxes in order "to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and General Welfare of the United States." As required by United States v. Butler, 297 U.S. 1 (1936), Congress must exercise its power to tax and spend for the "general welfare". Through use of its spending power, Congress is able to place a requirement on states that compliance with specified conditions must take place before the state will be considered to meet the qualification requirement for federal funds. Under a test provided in South Dakota v. Dole, 483 U.S. 203 (1987), for Congress to place a condition on receipt of federal funds by a state, the spending has to serve the general welfare, the condition placed on the state must be unambiguous, the condition has to relate to the particular federal program, unconstitutional action cannot be a contingency of receipt of the funds, and the amount in question cannot be so great that it can be considered coercive to the state's acceptance of the condition.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/Spending_power

so .. .you hate republicans.