60% of Federal Spending goes to Departments Not Authorized by the Constitution

[roamer_1]

Populists tend to favor a larger, more centralized government. There was an interview with Donald Trump, I believe sometime before the 2016 campaign, were he  advocated for a universal healthcare system.

Whether you like a big, centralized government or not, the fact is that we can no longer afford it. So it’s also a case of arguing against math. All these programs have to be paid for and printing money is not the way to pay for all of this

I understand that times are different from when the constitution was written. But government has gotten mighty expensive.

Wandered back to find this post for emphasis.
This thread demonstrates your words.

There can be no peace with Tumpsters who favor big government... They just think they can do big government better than the democrats.

And they are damn well wrong on that.

[Hoodat]

No one does Big Government better than fascists.

[Smokin Joe]

@roamer_1

Purposeful ignorance in order to justify your biases isn't very pretty,either.

Answer THIS question for me,Bubba.

Does the US Constution FORBID all these things,and if so,where and in what ways?

For example,I seriously doubt the US Constitution forbids the forming of state and federal highway departments.

Amendment 10:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Pretty much sums that up.

The US Constitution leaves the highway departments up to the States, with the exception of the post roads.

[Texas Yellow Rose]

 

[sneakypete]

Amendment 10:

Pretty much sums that up.

The US Constitution leaves the highway departments up to the States, with the exception of the post roads.

@Smokin Joe

Ok,let's tear them all up and demand they not be replaced,and see who well THAT works.

[Bigun]

“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”

–The Federalist Papers, Number 47

Sadly, we failed to heed the warning and lawyers have accomplished the very thing we were warned against.

[Smokin Joe]

@Smokin Joe

Ok,let's tear them all up and demand they not be replaced,and see who well THAT works.

I'm not sure about where you live, but here in the wilds of North Dakota, we have Interstate Highways and US routes (Federal), State roads, county roads, city streets, private roads, and section line trails, Maintained respectively by Federal (post road) funding, State funding, county taxes, out of pocket money, and non-maintained rights of way technically available to all which are the equivalent of a "jeep trail" elsewhere. They would degrade naturally without maintenance, but tearing them up would be more expensive than letting them just go to hell in a handbasket.

My point is that Constitutionally, the 'post roads' are Federal routes equivalent to the US Routes and Interstates, and all else already falls to the State and Local Governments to maintain.