Yet again – here is the Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution:

Tenth: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

Which leads reasonable people to think, for example:

“If all fifty states have a Department of X? The federal government should not have a Department of X.”

Because a federal 51st Department of X would be redundant.  And unconstitutional.

I didn’t spend the last several months scouring the multiple websites of every state government in the Union.  But I will nevertheless assert with nigh moral certitude:

All fifty states each have multiple programs dedicated to welfare.

Including for telecommunications.  Internet, telephone, etc….

So federal (telecom) welfare programs are redundant.  And unconstitutional. (more…)