Policy: Entitlements  In receipt of stolen goods  By |
Congress,Walter Williams,Columnists,Taxes,Entitlements,Analysis,
Constitutionality  According to a recent Fox News poll, 73
percent of Americans are dissatisfied with the direction of the
country, up 20 percentage points from 2012. Americans sense that
there's a lot going wrong in our nation, but most don't have a
clue about the true nature of our problem. If they had a clue,
most would have little stomach for what would be necessary to
arrest our national decline. Let's look at it.  Between two-
thirds and three-quarters of federal spending, in contravention
of the Constitution, can be described as Congress taking the
earnings or property of one American to give to another, to whom
it does not belong. You say, "Williams, what do you mean?"
Congress has no resources of its very own. Moreover, there's no
Santa Claus or tooth fairy who gives it resources. The fact that
Congress has no resources of its very own forces us to recognize
that the only way Congress