SEE: Obama To Loosen Stem Cell Funding
Tony Perkins misses the point because of his personal beliefs. The real issue is not about “the dignity of all human life”, nor the religious views of individuals. This is about taxing and spending for a purpose unauthorized by our written Constitution ____ PERIOD!"Today's news that President Obama will open the door to direct taxpayer funds for embryonic stem cell research that encourages the destruction of human embryos is a slap in the face to Americans who believe in the dignity of all human life," said Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council. "It is unethical to use human life, even young embryonic life, to advance science.
Under our written Constitution we find Congress has been granted power :
“To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts“ and what is the limited way by which Congress is authorized to do this? “…by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries” .
Congress has not been granted power to tax hard working wage earners living in Harlem, South Philly, Newark and Camden, N.J., and other inner cities, and then hand these people’s hard earned wages over to privileged individuals selected by Obama to conduct their scientific experimentation with stem cells.
Also see Annals of Congress Feb 7th,1792 Rep Page the extent of Congress’s powers regarding the “fine arts and sciences”
Bottom line is, this is nothing more than one of the countless ways our federal treasury is plundered by those in political power and a privileged few have their fortunes fattened at the expense of the many."The framers of the Constitution guarded so much against a possibility of such partial preferences as might be given, if Congress had the right to grant them, that, even to encourage learning and useful arts, the granting of patents is the extent of their power. And surely nothing could be less dangerous to the sovereignty or interest of the individual States than the encouragement which might be given to ingenious inventors or promoters of valuable inventions in the arts and sciences. The encouragement which the General Government might give to the fine arts, to commerce, to manufactures, and agriculture, might, if judiciously applied, redound to the honor of Congress, and the splendor, magnificence, and real advantage of the United States; but the wise framers of our Constitution saw that, if Congress had the power of exerting what has been called a royal munificence for these purposes, Congress might, like many royal benefactors, misplace their munificence; might elevate sycophants, and be inattentive to men unfriendly to the views of Government; might reward the ingenuity of the citizens of one State, and neglect a much greater genius of another. A citizen of a powerful State it might be said, was attended to, whilst that of one of less weight in the Federal scale was totally neglected. It is not sufficient, to remove these objections, to say, as some gentlemen have said, that Congress in incapable of partiality or absurdities, and that they are as far from committing them as my colleagues or myself. I tell them the Constitution was formed on a supposition of human frailty, and to restrain abuses of mistaken powers.”
JWK
"To lay with one hand the power of the government on the property of the citizen and with the other to bestow upon favored individuals, to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes is none the less a robbery because it is done under forms of law and called taxation." ____ Savings and Loan Assc. v. Topeka,(1875).
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