Episode 764: Whose money is it anyways?

Dan Clements, Your Constitutional Warrior Monday March 27, 2017

No matter what your thoughts are about tax dollars, you will get a wide range of opinion on how it should be spent. There are two major schools of thought and they break down along party lines, the tax dollars belong to the government, and the tax dollars are the people’s and the government is just the stewards of those tax dollars.

Liberals believe the tax dollars are the governments to spend as directed by liberals for liberal cause, which usually amounts to virtue signaling. Liberals believe the “general welfare” means that tax dollars can be spent on any program to help anyone for any reason without any means testing.

Conservatives on the other hand view tax dollars as a trust we extend to our stewards in government, and they should be careful on what those tax dollars should be spent on. We are talking about the federal government in this case but it could be extended to state and local governments as well.

Bottom line is this some serious questions need to be ask and answered; Can the federal government act charitable on someone else’s behalf? If you don’t think it is charitable for the government to spend money, should you be forced to pay tax dollars to support it?

Daily Bible reading: John 5:36-40 But I have a greater witness than John’s; for the works which the Father has given Me to finish—the very works that I do—bear witness of Me, that the Father has sent Me.37 And the Father Himself, who sent Me, has testified of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His form 38 But you do not have His word abiding in you, because whom He sent, Him you do not believe.39 You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me.40 But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.