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Congress’s New Unconstitutional ‘Tax Mandate’ and Its Runaway Spending Power

Congress’s New Unconstitutional ‘Tax Mandate’ and Its Runaway Spending Power
President Joe Biden signs the American Rescue Plan inside the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on March 11, 2021. Tom Brenner/Reuters
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While the public focuses on the Biden administration’s vaccination mandate, many are overlooking yet another new federal mandate: Congress’s effort to ban state tax cuts.

Rob Natelson
Rob Natelson
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Robert G. Natelson, a former constitutional law professor who is senior fellow in constitutional jurisprudence at the Independence Institute in Denver, authored “The Original Constitution: What It Actually Said and Meant” (3rd ed., 2015). He is a contributor to The Heritage Foundation’s “Heritage Guide to the Constitution.”
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