Time and time again I hear the cry to shrink the federal government down to what is allowed in the constitution (at least as you see it)
That you want the power to reside within the states.
Ok, so let's imagine for a moment that your wish came true. That tomorrow the federal government was shrunk down to your ideal size and the power was put back into the hands of the states...
What exactly changes?
I can almost guarantee you that every federal program that was dismantled would be somehow enabled at the state level. There would still be SS, medicare and medicaid or some form of it. The departments established for protections and well being of it's citizens would still be there... The only difference I see is that I would be paying much more in state taxes and less in federal. And we would have a very ineffective hodge podge of states spending way too much money working against themselves trying to be different.
So how does this change anything?
That you want the power to reside within the states.
Ok, so let's imagine for a moment that your wish came true. That tomorrow the federal government was shrunk down to your ideal size and the power was put back into the hands of the states...
What exactly changes?
I can almost guarantee you that every federal program that was dismantled would be somehow enabled at the state level. There would still be SS, medicare and medicaid or some form of it. The departments established for protections and well being of it's citizens would still be there... The only difference I see is that I would be paying much more in state taxes and less in federal. And we would have a very ineffective hodge podge of states spending way too much money working against themselves trying to be different.
So how does this change anything?