>It's entirely legitimate that the division of authority between a state gov't and smaller entities be different from that between states and the Federal gov't.

>It's entirely legitimate that the division of authority between a state gov't and smaller entities be different from that between states and the Federal gov't. It's plausibly legitimate: I can imagine possible worlds where it works that way for a good reason. I just find it hard to imagine I live in such a world, and it's vastly more plausible that here in real life it's a class-based partisan power grab. Many of the bag fees and minimum-wage rises haven't even been passed by Party X: they've actually been ballot initiatives. So "partisanship" isn't even an adequate excuse. We really are looking at state legislators directly overriding the will of the voters because they don't like the outcomes.