Comments on: Scott Brown’s Scorecard: 0 for 1. http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2010/02/scott-browns-scorecard-0-for-1/ The Tenther Grapevine Sat, 18 May 2013 23:57:24 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jeff Matthews http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2010/02/scott-browns-scorecard-0-for-1/#comment-2291 Jeff Matthews Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:35:53 +0000 http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/?p=3497#comment-2291 We agree on your last sentence, without even my having to know the bill. As you know, I believe this to be true of almost every law.

I did not know the details about subsidies for construction, etc. Of course, I am not so sure there is much of a practical effect that would differentiate the government handing a check to certain tax payers vs. giving them specific tax breaks, except that the latter is arguably Constitutional and the former is not. See how easy it is to pervert legal concepts? You can achieve the same, pernicious (or good, if you prefer) result, either way.

]]> By: Michael Boldin http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2010/02/scott-browns-scorecard-0-for-1/#comment-2290 Michael Boldin Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:41:04 +0000 http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/?p=3497#comment-2290 Tax cuts are always good, and I support that part of it. In fact, if that was the entirety of the bill, I would consider it a good bill.

But that is not the whole bill, and I’m not interested in anything but constitutional purity. Some of it includes subsidies for state programs – construction, insurance, and the like. As a whole, I consider it constitutionally unsound.

The reality, of course, is that the entire bill is a massive subsidy of certain perferred activities to segments of the population

]]> By: Jeff Matthews http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2010/02/scott-browns-scorecard-0-for-1/#comment-2289 Jeff Matthews Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:45:06 +0000 http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/?p=3497#comment-2289 If it is tax cuts and highway spending, where does the Constitution disallow that?

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