The taxing power in the federal government resides in the Congress. The Constitution states that Congress has the power to “lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts” of the ...

Tourists and illegal aliens aren’t subject to the ‘full and complete jurisdiction’ of the United States.

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The Constitution states, “The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United ...

Democratic state attorneys general have said that the understanding of the Constitution's citizenship clause was cemented 127 years ago when the U.S. Supreme Court held that children born in the ...

The national debt, currently at $36.3 trillion and growing, is a boulder weighing on economic prosperity. The money lent to the government with every purchase of a note, bill, or bond, as investors ...

to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States …” The clause has been read to grant Congress an independent power to spend for the “general ...