Ron Paul's response to the prospect of federal aid for disaster victims in the county right next to mine? Shoulda bought insurance! Read for yourself.
“The people who live in tornado alley, just as I live in hurricane alley, they should have insurance,” GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul said Sunday, just a day after a string of deadly tornadoes touched down in five states, killing at least 38 people.
It's bad enough that his ideology calls for a pathologically apathetic government, but his reasoning for it is complete and utter horseshit.
“There is no such thing as federal money,” Paul said. “Federal money is just what they steal from the states and steal from you and me.”
There is no such thing as federal money? WHAT?!
This is Constitutional denialism if it's to be called anything. Because he denies the very first Congressional Power.
"The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States"
--Article I, Section 8, Clause 1
Helping out the victims of a disaster that has destroyed lives and homes is one of the most apt examples of providing for the general welfare that I have ever seen. But to Ron Paul,
the Constitutional power to provide for it with the power of taxation is theft.