Yeah, save that socialist label for that gal in Alaska who raises taxes on the primary business there so she can spread all that wealth to her welfare citizens so they themselves don't have to pay any local taxes.

By the way, Hank, Alexander Hamilton (first Sec of Treasury) didn't agree with Jefferson and Madison. He argued that Congress's power to tax and spend for the general welfare was additional to its other powers. This view was supported by the Supreme Court in 1936 (US v. Butler) when it decided that the Taxing and Spending Clause was indeed a separate grant of power to Congress. Because the Court could determine for itself whether a particular tax or expenditure was in the general welfare of the country, however, it was limited to national, not local welfare.