Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution allows taxing for the general welfare but nowhere does it even remotely state ”health care for everyone.” The Founding Fathers understood that charity of a moral people would be necessary to attend to the unmet needs of the citizens and they understood that a government that fell into thinking it’s role was to provide everything for its people also had the power to then take liberties away.
Thomas Jefferson warned again the welfare state where government endeavors to take care of everyone from the cradle to the grave. He wrote “If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy.” (Bergh, Writing of Thomas Jefferson, 10:342)
Patriot Tammy
