The following words or phrases are not in the Constitution: Education, Energy, Health Care
Spending will be out of control and taxes will be too high until we shape the systems that take the bulk of our tax dollars into systems that provide us better returns on our investments of those tax dollars.
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I am aware of that. I am also aware of James Madison’s notion that federal spending is only permitted when it advances one of Congress’ other powers enumerated by the Constitution. I am also aware that Madison’s viewpoint did not reflect the consensus of our country’s founding generation, and that most advancements of last century would not have been possible had we followed Madison’s interpretation of the taxing and spending clause.
We could choose not to govern the incentives of that system and allow the current corporate structure beholden to shareholders to take an increasing percentage of our tax dollars, or we could come to a consensus about how to make the governance of our health system responsible for healthy citizens.
It is fashionable in Tennessee to be a Republican, to quote James Madison and to cheer the bandwagon of states in which legislation has been or is planned to be introduced to fight federal health care reforms as unconstitutional, but who is that really helping?Read more at www.knoxviews.com
