That would be funding a general welfare program with a tax on a specific class of people.
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Some might reply that the General Welfare clause in our founding document enumerates this power, but such a response would be false.
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Of course, that lack of specific provisions has been construed by liberal constructionists to mean that anything that remotely sounds like promoting the general welfare is justified.
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If the General Welfare clause were really so expansive such that politicians could invent new roles for the government, then it would render the Constitution itself moot.
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The purpose of the General Welfare clause is to provide a reason, motivation, and purpose to the proper exercise of the Powers the Constitution specifically grants to Congress.
His technocrats, in the EPA, Health and Human Services, OSHA, Energy Department, and so on, regulate, subsidize, fine, and promote with no goal other than the general welfare.
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Without missing a beat, he cited the General Welfare Clause.
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Second, only government can make those investments in common goods that serve the general welfare but are too expensive for any individual or firm to purchase on their own.
Second, only government can make those investments in common goods that serve the general welfare but are too expensive for any individual or firm to buy on their own.
Citing James Madison, Woods asks an important question: if the general welfare clause is sufficient to justify pretty much anything the Federal government wants to do, why bother with enumerated powers?
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General Welfare Clause misinterpreters, you can start here.
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An organization is operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare if it is primarily engaged in promoting in some way the common good and general welfare of the people of the community.
Obama won by ignoring the general welfare and specifically targeting the special interests that would give him enough votes to win no idealism or statesmanship there, just the ruthless political calculation of divide and conquer.
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The assault on the individual mandate is really an assault on the public duty to assist other Americans in need, and in particular, an assault on the legal obligation to pay taxes to contribute to the general welfare.
If you think about the government in terms of its original mission--"to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty"--then Ignatius is right.
The unlimited Commerce-Clause power the government claims here would be indistinguishable from a national police power, with the federal government authorized to regulate and enforce order to advance any vision of the general welfare, morals, health, and safety it may conceive.
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The democratic process, on the other hand, wanders aimlessly about the wilderness, inducing everyone to become a bandit or a member of an interest-group gang seeking to better their own situation at the expense of everyone else rather than producing and adding to the general welfare.
And yet, in the face of all the evidence to the contrary, most progressives believe as an article of faith that most GS-13s somehow are better adapted to promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity than are mere citizens.
As for the Welfare Clause, far from some ambiguous insertion meant to allow politicians to do whatever they wanted with our general welfare in mind, the Welfare Clause was written to ensure that any actions taken by the federal government that fell within its enumerated powers had to be considered with the general welfare of the citizenry in mind.
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At a stroke, this demolishes the long tradition of universal benefits, which was intended to secure general support for welfare.
The General Presidency of Youth Welfare only regulates male clubs and its head was recently quoted saying he would not endorse Saudi women athletes at the 2012 Olympics.
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Depending on whether investors buy the soccer clubs as well as the land on which the clubs' assets are sited, the General Presidency of Youth Welfare could raise more than 5 billion Saudi riyals, according to the same member of the committee.
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The General Presidency of Youth Welfare will submit the committee's report to the Supreme Economic Council and new legislation will have to be formed, according to members of the advisory committee, with the eventual privatization to take about two years to enact if approved.
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Thus, the debate became not only one about taxes, but vaguely about welfare programs in general.
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They also checked for general good order, assessed welfare facilities and checked for whether personal protective equipment, such as head gear, was being used appropriately.
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In the last general election, in 1995, Welfare was the biggest party, winning 21% of the vote.
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As a general rule they treat their servants well, care about their welfare and are generally respected by them in turn.
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It would be better to roll the program into the general budget and not have separate earmarked taxes, like any other welfare program.
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