Source: Town Hall
by Mark Lewis
“‘Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.’ ‘I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.’ — James Madison … I just thought I’d throw those two quotes above out there so you’d know what James Madison, the ‘Father’ of our Constitution, the guy who wrote most of it, thought about a government welfare state. There is absolutely nothing in the Constitution that gives the federal government the right to spend one thin dime, much less trillions, on charity, even to their own constituents, much less to foreigners. But, it’s really a moot point; nobody in Washington, D.C., especially in Congress, pays the least bit of attention to what the Constitution authorizes them to do.” (04/23/25)