Originally Posted by Senator Hatrack
And no, healthcare does not fit under the general Welfare clause.

Article I, Section 8, Clause 1

promote - support or actively encourage.

general - affecting or concerning all or most people, places, or things; widespread

welfare - the health, happiness, and fortunes of a person or group.

Any society that aspires to nothing, will lose everything. Through an insidious devaluation of curiosity and intellectualism, lost empathy and abandoned governance, it will eventually fall victim to its self-engenderizing.


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