Liberals Forget - The Constitution Keeps the Money Rolling In

All this hub-bub about the reading of the Constitution on the floor of the House of Representatives is fun to follow. The Powerline guys are all over it here and here, but the emerging view is that the left is pretty darn disdainful of the Constitution. Yeah, I know, shocker. I would warn those on the left, however, not to be so hostile to the Constitution for no other reason than that it is the only thing enabling the funding of even the most basic liberal vision. Many citizens, myself included, view the Constitution as the only basis for our government's legitimacy, thus without it there is no legitimacy and nobody pays taxes to an illegitimate government. Got that? No Constitution, no taxes. You'll have to come and collect, and that will exceedingly difficult. That's the political science conundrum that all you Constitution-haters face. But that's not all. On a raw note of practicality, those who base legitimacy in the Constitution own more guns than those who don't, so I'd start lovin' that 100 year old (so Ezra tells me) document or start thinking about how you're gonna gain the firepower advantage.