Powers Granted
The power to tax is a concurrent power of the federal government and the individual states. The taxation power has been received over time to be very broad, but has also, on occasion, been curtailed by the courts. United States v. Butler stated that the clause also granted "a substantive power... to appropriate", not subject to the limitations imposed by the other enumerated powers of Congress.
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