Comments on: Big Government I: Hysteria as Reality http://sadredearth.com/big-government-i-hysteria-as-reality/ how we lived on it Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:29:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Neil http://sadredearth.com/big-government-i-hysteria-as-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-938 Neil Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:26:46 +0000 http://sadredearth.com/?p=3511#comment-938 "the fear of the loss of power by States – in fact, even constitutionally unaccounted for cities – to tax, proved unwarranted." Unfunded federal mandates which eat up state budgets, to the detriment of local concerns? States forced by "tax revolts" to lower the property or income taxes which pay for local infrastructure, at least in part because of the ever-growing federal share of tax revenue? The incipient federal bail-out of the coastal blue states? You are simply averting your eyes from the States' loss of power. It is legitimate to argue that State power should be minimized, in favor of a uniform Federal law for the entire country--but how can you ignore this dynamic? “the fear of the loss of power by States – in fact, even constitutionally unaccounted for cities – to tax, proved unwarranted.”

Unfunded federal mandates which eat up state budgets, to the detriment of local concerns? States forced by “tax revolts” to lower the property or income taxes which pay for local infrastructure, at least in part because of the ever-growing federal share of tax revenue? The incipient federal bail-out of the coastal blue states?

You are simply averting your eyes from the States’ loss of power. It is legitimate to argue that State power should be minimized, in favor of a uniform Federal law for the entire country–but how can you ignore this dynamic?

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