81% of people receiving public housing benefits vote Democratic – and that’s just the tip

rare ^ | 2/13/14 | Matt Palumbo, Rare Contributor

[Amendment10]

With the exception of the federal government entities indicated in the Constitution's Clauses 16 & 17 of Section 8 of Article I, such entities under the exclusive legislative control of Congress, just as with vote-winning federal public healhcare, the states have never delegated to the feds, via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for vote-winning public housing. This is evidenced by Justice John Marshall's official clarification of Congress's limited power to lay taxes, Congress prohibited from laying taxes in the name of state powers issues, essentially any issue which Congress cannot justify under Section 8.

“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

Note that if Congress was not stealing state revenues in the form of constitutionally indefensible federal taxes that the states could probably afford to manage their own public housing programs. That's why patriots need to elect lawmakers to their state legislatures who understand the federal government's constitutionally limited powers and will fight fed usurpation of state powers.

As a side note concerning state lawmakers fighting fed usurpation of state powers, a lot of constitutionally indefensible federal spending programs were undoubtedly established as a consequence of state lawmakers foolishly giving up the voices of the state legislatures in Congress by ratifying the ill-conceived 17th amendment.

But it remains that the main reason that corrupt Congress is getting away with establishing constitutionally indefensible federal spending programs is because parents, for many generations, have not been making sure that their children are being taught about the federal government's constitutionally limited powers in the way that the Founding States had intended for those powers to be understood. And low-information voters make it easier for the corrupt federal government to usurp state powers.

Finally, should the states ever decide that Congress could run a national housing program better than the individual states can (ahem), then the states can always amend the Constitution to grant Congress the specific power to establish such a program.