Keith Evans
Sep 2, 2018 · 2 min read

Your perception, and that of most of your responders, is completely in error when it comes to what our government provides and how it pays for it. It is only because it is politically expedient to politicians on both “sides” to not offer correction that this misconception has been allowed to perpetuate.

So, someone has to provide these rights. Perhaps the government is providing them. But who provides them to the government?

You are all about the Constitution and the rights outlined there, so let’s start there and look at Article 1: Section 8 where the responsibilities of the Congress are outlined. That is where you will find the monopoly authority of Congress to “coin” the money and tax, as well as the mandate that it do so “for the common welfare”. This broke any chain involving money as a “thing” that the government must “get” from anyone before spending, or that belongs to anyone as property. Unlike any other entity, the federal government stands alone in its interaction with the currency as the monopoly “ISSUER”, not simply a user, like us, states, or anyone else who isn’t the federal government.

As long as it can be posited credibly that some spending by Congress can advance the “common welfare” it is its “responsibility” to do so, and not even a choice afforded to the politicians, regardless of their individual or collective ideology. While some things may fall into gray areas where desires and welfare somewhat overlap, I believe that only the most depraved individuals mired into their ideologies would include health care in that area and not clearly “for the common welfare”. Therefor, we should move as quickly as possible to institute a plan for a single payer system as the most expedient way to bring Congress in compliance with the Constitution with the least disruption.

PS: There is no operational connection between taxing and spending, so no taxes need to be collected to “pay for” health care for all. The only consideration allowed to Congress in this is the availability of real resources, human and non-human, to achieve this objective.

    Keith Evans

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