Baldy wrote:kalm wrote:
Oh, I'm sorry. You actually think you scored a point there.
4 Supreme Court justices contradict IT's opinion that corporations are entitled to the same 1st amendment rights as people.
For further information, please see above posts. ^
Thanks!

The 4 justices who don't agree are the 4 idiots who believe the Constitution is a living breathing document and should be changed on a whim.
Much like you in another thread quoting the Constitution in your argument that government is a charity, when the guy who wrote the Constitution clearly stated that government isn't a charity.
It's not about scoring a "point", it about showing you how fundamentally and obviously flawed your "logic" is, that's all.

So now you're a constitutional scholar too!
“If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the general welfare, the government is no longer a limited one possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one subject to particular exceptions. It is to be remarked that the phrase out of which this doctrine is elaborated is copied from the old Articles of Confederation, where it was always understood as nothing more than a general caption to the specified powers, and it is a fact that it was preferred in the new instrument for that very reason, as less liable than any other to misconstruction.”
James Madison
You're right, the founders, especially Madison and Jefferson were clear on the dangers of redistribution just like they were clear on the dangers of consolidated wealth and power.
Then again, they owned slaves.
At least however they recognized the importance of consent through We the People. Again, government is a wealth distribution machine - whether it's feudal lords enjoying the wealth created by the labor of their serfs, the welfare queen chatting on her iPhone while buying groceries with food stamps before she hops back in the Escalade, the defense contractor making billions off of unnecessary wars he lobbied for, or Saudi Prince's cutting annual checks to their citizens out of the treasury. The limited government cat is out of the bag so it simply boils down to our opinions of what are noble expenditures.
"Give the king your justice, O God, and your righteousness to a king's son. May he judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice. May the mountains yield prosperity for the people, and the hills, in righteousness. May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the needy, and crush the oppressor."
Psalm 72
WWJD?
