Difference between revisions of "General Welfare Clause"
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The general welfare clause allows Congress to "lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the taxes debts and proved from for the common defense and general welfare of the United States." Congress is permitted to promote the general welfare in its use of spending power.<ref>U.S Government and Politics</ref