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Taxpayer funding isn’t a right: Supreme Court saved America from having budgets written by the courts

Matthew Vadum

Here is the top of my op-ed that appeared in yesterday’s Washington Times (and an article at WND quotes me): America’s long-suffering taxpayers scored a resounding victory as the Supreme Court told one of the nation’s foremost tax-eating groups to take a hike. The high court denied an appeal last week by the radical left-wing gangster group ACORN, ruling in effect that Congress was entitled to cut off federal taxpayer funding for the group, which routinely perpetrates voter fraud and encourages welfare recipients to buy houses they have no hope of paying for. ACORN still matters because reports of its demise have been exaggerated. … Continue reading Taxpayer funding isn’t a right: Supreme Court saved America from having budgets written by the courts

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Taxpayer Funding Isn’t A Right — Unless You’re Jerrold Nadler

Matthew Vadum

It may sound like an observation worthy of Captain Obvious, but activist groups do not have a constitutional right to taxpayer funding. Amazingly, in ACORN et al. v. U.S. a federal judge in Brooklyn named Nina Gershon, not to be confused with Gina Gershon of Showgirls fame, actually ruled that ACORN had constitutionally protected rights in the congressional appropriations process and that those so-called rights had somehow been violated by an vewy vewy eeeevil vast right-wing conspiracy. Supposedly the Bill of Attainder Clause had been infringed and ACORN had been singled out for punishment without trail. This assumes, of course, that ceasing to fund an odious group … Continue reading Taxpayer Funding Isn’t A Right — Unless You’re Jerrold Nadler