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So... How does the fed continue to function?
by EpicEng 10y ago
So... How does the fed continue to function?
- krapp 10y agoIt wouldn't, which would be the entire point. Reduce government to the size that it can be dragged into the bathroom and drowned in the bathtub, as Grover Norquist eloquently put it, letting state governments and private interests fill the power vacuum.
- EpicEng 10y agoYeah, who needs interstates, foreign relations, and minority protections anyway?
- krapp 10y agoAny authority not explicitly granted by the US Constitution to the Federal government lies first with the people, and second with the states. The Federal government is supposed to be the weakest and least privileged by design. That may not be the most humane, egalitarian or efficient way to run a country at the scale of the US, but to many people that is the way it's supposed to work.