The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
Congress have an unlimited power to raise money ... restricted only by the duty to appropriate it to the purpose of common defense and of general, not local; national, not State benefit.
The power of the purse is the only real power of government.
… every man who puts money into the hands of a "government" (so called), puts into its hands a sword which will be used against himself, to extort more money from him, and also to keep him in subjection to its arbitrary will.
The growing tendency to justify and base governance on the grounds of maintaining economic efficiency has opened the door to secessionists who can legitimately claim that they are not reaping the benefits of economic restructuring.
I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a budget for the people of India.
I am in favour of a different Europe, where each state can adopt its fiscal and monetary system.
Once the monetary sovereignty is retaken, one can make a last attempt to renegotiate all of the treaties: Maastricht, Schengen, Dublin, and Lisbon.
What's a fact is that we give more than £350 million to the European Union and hand over control of that money to the European Union every week.
It is not in our interest to sign economic policy agreements with the IMF, as that unnecessarily limits the room to manoeuvre of... the Hungarian government, Hungarian parliament and lawmakers.
The United Nations has long sought the ability to raise revenues in this manner as a means of reducing its reliance on American and other member nations' dues to sustain the UN's operations.
