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Episode 294: Article I, Section 8, Pt.2

Words & Numbers

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Is There a Constitutional Angle With Highway Funding?

When Congress passed the Affordable Care Act, it was language that allowed the Department of Education to make loans to college students for tuition. There's nothing in Article One, Section 8 that empowers the federal government to do that. Now we're never going to get rid of this thing. I can remember all kinds of things that were off limits when I was a boy that now we all cheerfully do.

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