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May
7th, 2001
41
Days until Cost of Government Day 2001
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"Government
is instituted to protect property of every sort.... This being
the end of government, that alone is a just government which impartially
secures to every man, whatever is his own." -- James Madison
"If
the novel view of the General Welfare Clause now advanced in support of
the tax were accepted, this clause would not only enable Congress to
supplant the states in the regulation of agriculture and all other
industries as well, but would furnish the means whereby all of the other
provisions of the Constitution, sedulously framed to define and limit the
powers of the United States and preserve the powers of the states, could
be broken down, the independence of the individual states obliterated, and
the United States converted into a central government exercising
uncontrolled police power throughout the union superseding all local
control over local concerns." - United States v. Butler Supreme
Court, 1935).
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