Invert the Pyramid

We have this shit all backwards.

The federal gummint should tax us at 2-3% and then only provide for a military and defense of our borders.  PERIOD.   END OF SENTENCE.

Local gummints should tax us at the level needed to provide services we vote for in each state.  This means, each state has their own Social Security, Medicare, welfare, etc.  If your state wants to have huge retirement benefits for your seniors - so be it, but you pay for it.  If your state wants a work requirement for welfare, so be it.  You run it the way you want to in your own state. 

With 50 different ways to attack problems, the Laboratories of Democracy (U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, 1932) will create benchmarks for improving governmental processes.   

Doesn't each state know what it needs, better than Washington DC?

Why do we maintain a long-distance relationship with an entity that doesn't know us and really doesn't care about anything other than personal power?  Washington DC is not responsive to you.  They don't know you.  They don't live down the street from you.  Local officials DO!

Anytime we want to change something in our state, it is much easier to accomplish than trying to change Washington DC.  We can respond to actions at our state capitals by protesting on the same day or in the same week as the actions we find reckless, stupid, or woke.  Try to get Washington DC's attention regarding the apparent stupidity roaming the halls of Congress. 

 

  

   States are aligned with regional interests.  We have different cultures in our various regions.  We are not a monolithic nation built on the retarded woke culture of the coasts.  For instance, not all areas of the country embrace the mental illness of transsexuality as "normal".  This doesn't mean we should punish trans people, but neither should we celebrate their obvious dysfunction.  (Even most of them realize how fucked up they are.)

There are many issues we can address from local, state, regional, and federal perspectives.

The real point is this:  in this era of instant gratification, which level of government is more responsive to you - state or federal?

Time to invert the pyramid.  Take away Washington DC's power by forming our own state-run social support programs, then stop paying federal taxes state-wide.  

Watch those DC swamp rats squirm.