Rand's stated argument is that Congress holds the power of the purse, which is ostensibly true. However, they abrogated and shirked that responsibility over a century ago. His libertarian leanings might hold more valid sway if we lived in a high IQ, high trust ethostate, but that is not the reality of our situation. A house divided with 5th column usurpers inside the gate and barbarian brown hordes biding their time.