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To: LindyBill who wrote (116239)	5/25/2005 8:52:29 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 793914

I might not consider it constitutional but I'm a rather extreme originalist. I probably would consider social security unconstitutional. I wouldn't see the 25 cents per hot dog a violation of my 1st amendment rights, but I might consider promoting the sale of hot dogs as something that the federal government has no constitutional power to do. Esp. since my hot dog stand would probably not be involved in interstate commerce. If VA tried to impose such a program it would still be an awful idea but it wouldn't be unconstitutional IMO. There is a closer tie between the tax and the federal government program, and its words than there is with most taxes, but I don't see how taxing me to support the sale of hot dogs is that different than taxing me to support overseas advertising for American products. The only difference in the hot dog example is that in that example I would be selling the supported product and paying for its promotion. Is that worse than not selling the product by paying for its promotion anyway? ------------------ Some corpoerate welfare links cato.org npri.org angelfire.com (note I think a lot of stuff on the home site for this page is bogus but this page seems accurate enough) pacificresearch.org