Many members in Congress have signed a pledge to lobbyist Grover Norquist promising to NOT apply the available Powers of Congress as outlined in Chapter 1, Section 8 of the U.S Constitution; ”The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, Pay Debts, provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States." Their deliberately hostile fiscal action has driven our nation into an unsustainable debt spiral. This in turn has weakened our government's promise to keep its obligations and ability to perform, thus endangering the American people and our nation's future. We believe that the signers of the pledge consciously nullified orders of function set forth in the Constitution and thereby broke their oath of office and duty to country.



