Alaska GOP candidate maintains jobless benefits are unconstitutional

Appearing on Fox News Sunday, the Tea Party favorite stuck to his position that unemployment benefits aren't constitutional.


"Why are unemployment benefits unconstitutional?" Fox News' Chris Wallace asked Miller.

"The Constitution provides enumerated powers," answered Miller. "I guess my challenge is to anybody that asks, show me the enumerated power. And then look at the 10th Amendment that says if it's not done in the Constitution, it's a power that belongs to the state and the people."

Miller said, "I think we as a people need to stop being disingenuous about what the Constitution provides for. It does not provide for this all-encompassing power that we've seen exercised for last several decades."

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As the Anchorage Daily News has reported, "Miller has called for across-the-board cuts, phasing out government Medicare and Social Security, and getting rid of the federal Department of Education because it is not in the Constitution, leaving the function to the states. He's going well beyond positions that Palin advocated when she was running to be governor of the state and those she espoused as governor."

I certainly would question why Miller would make idiotic statement on the unemployment benefits given the fact that he is an attorney. I certainly would question his law license because here's a Supreme Court case that affirmed the constitutionality of the Social Security Act (which includes unemployment benefits). Click here.