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Under the Obama administration, there was a popular lefty proposal to sideline the debt limit by just having the Treasury Department mint a trillion-dollar coin. Biden’s proposal to cancel student loan debt on a massive scale by abusing the Heroes Act, a post 9/11 measure meant to help military personnel leaving college was a similar power grab and an obscene scam. It was a naked effort at voter turnout and it succeeded at that.
Losing in the Supreme Court doesn’t especially hurt Biden, much like the Dobbs decision, it helps boost voter turnout further.
But the Supreme Court’s decision was the right move for reining in this grotesque abuse of power.
The student loan bailout was estimated to surpass $500 billion. That’s not that far short of minting a trillion-dollar coin. And the larger issue at stake here is that if a president can just decide to hand out $500 billion or more by finding some loophole in an old bill somewhere, is there anything that he can’t do?
Congress is supposed to appropriate funds. When the executive branch starts appropriating funds to its own programs, there isn’t a constitutional government anymore, just a dictatorship with occasional elections.
The Supreme Court’s decision is the correct one and I’m not going to quote it at length as it gets into technicalities that are important, but not that quotable. The gist of it is that the White House can’t just create massive new entitlement schemes that Congress never voted on out of thin air based on some older bill. But the Court leaves undone other major instances when the executive branch simply decided to take an existing bill, use a loophole and build entirely new programs around it.
The fundamental issue at stake here is the checks and balances between the branches of government in a republic where the legislative branch increasingly doesn’t do all that much except approve spending programs and the agendas of the majority party that holds the White House.
That’s why voters tend to hand control of Congress and the White House to different parties. And, coping with that, presidents have come to rely on the ‘pen and phone’, on executive orders, on promising to solve problems on their own while sidelining Congress entirely. This is a dictatorial breakdown of constitutional government. And it also doesn’t work.
Presidents make empty promises and tell their supporters that they can fix problems with executive orders. They can’t. All they do is wreck the country even more while implementing measures that mostly don’t outlive their term in office.
“…For it’s one, two, three strikes you’re out at the old ball game.”
Constitutionalism is a romantic fondness for impractical simplicity that ignores Leftist Imperative.
The Tsar had the same difficulty in understanding the inappropriateness of monarchy. The brothers had to conduct a practical demonstration involving the royal grandchildren and a well.
Sometimes teaching methods make all the difference.
Yeah, that struck me reading Trotsky. He was so triumphant and proud of the success of his Bolshevik revolution. What did it get him in the end? An axe in the head from one of Stalin’s minions.
Yes, Trotsky was the quintessential useful idiot who put Lenin in power, who in turn put Stalin in power. What a stupid commie. Anybody who believes communism is a viable socio-political system is a fool at best and a retard at worst. And monsters like Stalin and Mao always come along to take advantage of a false system they don’t believe in to seize power.
Yeah, I keep wondering, who is the monster who will take advantage of the Democrat Party folly?
Good question. Many of them would love to be tyrants with absolute power and authority.
Stalin and Mao proved that strength and will aren’t necessary, just ambition, opportunism and a complete lack of morals and scruples.
It would probably be somebody nobody foresaw.
What happens if a bank robber steals the trillion dollar coin? Where can he cash it?
Remember when The Kenya pronounced that the president could not unilaterally change immigration laws without an act of congress– tricky thing, that constitutional separation of powers– and then The Kenyan proceeded to implement his DACA limited amnesty in contradiction to the law? By contrast, Joe Bite-Me’s student loan forgiveness policy blatantly repudiates congressional law (which allows for no such thing) without even lip service to congress’s constitutional prerogative. Thus you have the two wings of the Democ-rat political party: The Liars vs. The Senile. What-ev-er. They’ve taught an army of drones to hate Trump, and that’s all that matters.
Don’t be surprised if this issue become part of next year’s election. Millions will vote for Biden, if he promise to cancel all student debt, if the Democrats control the Senate and the House.
Don’t worry about the impact on the national debt, which just pass the 32 trillion dollar level, rules are made to be broken.
Taking money out of the Military to build Democrat Voter Registration Booths at the Border