Episode 129 - Corruption: Proximate vs Ultimate Causes

It's easy to say that a particular person violated the public trust and corruptly took funds allocated by Congress for Day Care, Autism treatment, or any of a hundred other "worthy" causes. But when citizen journalist Nick Shirley found $110 million in fraud in just one day, one has to ask if that's the real story. Or is the story actually that, beginning during the New Deal, the Supreme Court ripped the Enumerated Powers Clause (Art I, Section 8) out of the Constitution with United States v. Butler in 1936 and Helvering v. Davis in 1937. These decisions declared that the Enumerated Powers did not in any way restrict the things that Congress could spend your tax dollars on.