The Framers’ expectation that federal spending and taxes would be limited to support only explicitly constitutional functions—to “pay debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare”—has been distorted deliberately as part of the Statists’ design. It is folly to believe that Congress and the president, on their own, will make the necessary and difficult decisions to address the impending financial debacle. After all, they and their predecessors engineered the approaching tsunami. As the situation becomes direr, the federal government’s actions will grow more oppressive.
