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Episode 103: What Does “Necessary and Proper” Actually Mean?

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The Constitution and the Debt of the United States

We're sitting on a what 22, I guess we're approaching $23 trillion debt. The way you get here is by ignoring those enumerated powers and just allowing the federal government to do whatever it wants. You've in effect handed the credit card to the teenager and said, go kid, spend away. And then we can have some sort of crackpot totalitarian regime or some kind of deeply socialist regime.

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