Quote Originally Posted by oladub View Post
Why not eliminate the rest of the Constitution then because, with your take, the general welfare clause supercedes the rest of it and allows you to do whatever you say promotes the general welfare?
According to the socialists here and elsewhere, the "general welfare" statement in the preamble and the interstate commerce clause basically allow the federal government to do anything it wishes, with no limits. Stalin could be running this country just like he did the USSR with those two misconstrued arguments.