Needed: Examples of Un-Constitutional government spending

[FrankRep]

I need to generate a list of examples of the government spending money Un-Constitutionally.

Thanks.

[uncloned21]

http://www.usa.gov/Agencies/Federal/All_Agencies/index.shtml

[noxagol]

Uh, anythign that doesn't go for roads, military, and paying off national debt I think.

[ConstitutionGal]

Department of Education
Department of Health and Human Services (including Medicare and Medicaid)
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Fannie Mae
Student Loans
F.C.C.
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ought to be convenience store, not a federal agency)
Department of Environment and Conservation
Social Security Administration
Department of Homeland Security

..and these are just a FEW with the Deparment of Education being the newest (created by Carter in exchange for the backing of the NEA during his campaign) behind Homeland Security.

[starless]

Dept. of Education is my personal (non)favorite.

[billjarrett]

Hi,
That would be a pretty huge list, I guess the best thing to do would be to read Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution, then the 10th Amendment. Anything our government is doing that is not covered in Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution would be unconstitutional. So, the list would be enormous, since Article 1 Section 8 as far as spending goes says defense and post offices, and most everything else in there is policy (borrow money, taxes, naturalization, punishment for counterfeiting, declare war, etc)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_One_of_the_United_States_Constitution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10th_amendment

[maiki]

Not to mention *undeclared* war spending is unconstitutional, and the biggest of the list.

[davidkachel]

Easy... get a copy of the national budget, tear out a couple of pages, the rest is unconstitutional.
Actually looking for the little bit that is constitutional is worse than a needle in a haystack.

[Johnnybags]

its all you need. We are going to give away a billion to help them find better ways to smuggle contraband?

[maxmerkel]

not being able to account for 2.3 billon in defense budget ?