Originally posted by CLL53E.g. property crime law enforcement.
"useful government services" are very few in number, most government projects, programs, and services, are a boondoggle at best, merely a way to redistribute the money away from the productive and to the unproductive.
Read the Constitution, it defines the only "useful government services", per "porovide for the common defense...", etc. All of the "useful g ...[text shortened]... licitly named in the Constitution are defacto Unconstitutional and should be eliminated.
Originally posted by CLL53Well, it depends on what you think government policies ought to achieve; if you think that for example its policies should encourage economic growth and/or increase the standard of living of the populace, it will include more than "poroviding (sic) for the common defense etc".
"useful government services" are very few in number, most government projects, programs, and services, are a boondoggle at best, merely a way to redistribute the money away from the productive and to the unproductive.
Read the Constitution, it defines the only "useful government services", per "porovide for the common defense...", etc. All of the "useful g ...[text shortened]... licitly named in the Constitution are defacto Unconstitutional and should be eliminated.
Originally posted by CLL53Right after "provide for the common defense" it also says "promote the general welfare."
Read the Constitution, it defines the only "useful government services", per "porovide for the common defense...", etc. All of the "useful government services" not explicitly named in the Constitution are defacto Unconstitutional and should be eliminated.